Freshwater biogeographic province pre-clear wetland system extents

Definition of freshwater biogeographic province

based on wetland mapping version 7.0

Pre-clear wetland system extent by freshwater biogeographic province
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Freshwater biogeographic province	Total area (ha)	Wetland area by system				Total wetland area (ha)
		intertidal (saltmarsh, saltflats, mangroves) (natural)	lacustrine (natural)	palustrine (natural)	riverine
Total	172,721,160	1,149,615	516,153	3,048,586	2,734,613	7,448,967
Central	30,487,033	294,017	13,085	175,007	581,115	1,063,224
Eastern Cape	1,278,291	48,579	3,622	24,500	19,181	95,882
Jardine	327,317	2,230		19,308	1,523	23,060
Lake Eyre and Bulloo	56,182,474		462,977	1,748,332	806,100	3,017,409
Murray Darling	26,252,623		25,609	220,981	152,887	399,477
South East	7,349,836	39,462	13	88,817	162,983	291,275
Wallum	572,490	24,580	3,598	99,785	10,417	138,381
Western Cape and Gulf	47,372,155	670,906	4,907	580,369	934,875	2,191,057
Wet Tropics	2,898,940	69,841	2,341	91,487	65,532	229,202

Note that these totals may be lower than the Queensland totals due to incomplete coverage of freshwater biogeographic provinces.

Disclaimer

Areas do not include marine or estuarine waters but do include estuarine wetland vegetation
(e.g. mangroves and tidal flats).

All statistics are approximate and generated based on data transformed to a customised Albers equal-area projection, thus allowing wetland extent change for different regions of Queensland to be comparable.

Areas may change over time as mapping approaches improve.

Totals may not match the sum of individually displayed figures due to the rounding of displayed figures.