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Aquatic Conservation Assessment (AquaBAMM) and other 2019 wetland system extents

Definition of Aquatic Conservation Assessment (AquaBAMM) and other

based on wetland mapping version 6.0 metadata

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2019 wetland system extent by Aquatic Conservation Assessment (AquaBAMM) and other metadata
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Aquatic Conservation Assessment Total area
(ha)
Wetland area by system Total
wetland area
(ha)
artificial and highly modified intertidal (saltmarsh, saltflats, mangroves) (natural) intertidal (saltmarsh, saltflats, mangroves) (slightly modified) lacustrine (natural) lacustrine (slightly modified) palustrine (natural) palustrine (slightly modified) riverine
Total 173,288,463 313,054 1,188,962 4,193 514,650 37,783 2,831,738 86,628 2,429,135 7,406,144
Baffle to Fitzroy coastal region 418,492 73 77,184 86 85 236 2,660 5,911 477 86,712
Cape York catchments 10,777,744 2,657 245,701 5,425 185 259,040 305 86,905 600,219
Eastern Gulf of Carpentaria 30,296,090 9,684 214,677 3,250 5,420 278,661 1,448 661,136 1,174,277
Great Barrier Reef catchments 33,250,025 136,132 304,894 3,545 12,401 17,423 162,208 62,965 570,224 1,269,791
Lake Eyre and Bulloo basins 51,022,919 7,954 444,736 3,239 1,594,292 1,370 655,955 2,707,546
Queensland Murray-Darling and Bulloo basins 31,458,206 89,879 43,704 4,797 351,741 10,226 151,922 652,268
South East Queensland catchments 2,456,753 32,189 33,647 545 771 1,882 67,935 2,699 33,505 173,172
Southern Gulf catchments 8,546,795 7,033 299,617 1,458 2,834 84,753 896 204,635 601,226
Wide Bay-Burnett catchments 5,061,440 27,453 13,243 17 2,821 1,767 30,447 807 64,378 140,932

Note that these totals may be lower than the Queensland totals due to incomplete coverage of Aquatic Conservation Assessments (AquaBAMM) and others.

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.


This page should be cited as:

Department of Environment, Science and Innovation, Queensland (2022) Aquatic Conservation Assessment (AquaBAMM) and other 2019 wetland system extents, WetlandInfo website, accessed 18 March 2024. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/statistics/wetland-extent/aca-bounding-area.html

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