Freshwater biogeographic province 2019 wetland system extents

Definition of freshwater biogeographic province

based on wetland mapping version 6.0

2019 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)
		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	172,721,160	313,113	1,073,033	4,124	512,878	37,535	2,827,078	80,710	2,427,188	7,275,658
Central	30,487,033	124,524	242,545	3,372	11,965	16,960	114,031	61,097	520,132	1,094,626
Eastern Cape	1,278,291	13	48,754		3,641		24,345		19,178	95,931
Jardine	327,317	< 1	2,346				17,783		1,518	21,648
Lake Eyre and Bulloo	56,182,474	8,362			463,191	3,366	1,744,018	1,623	672,692	2,893,251
Murray Darling	26,252,623	89,451			23,580	4,663	201,785	9,973	134,522	463,976
South East	7,349,836	58,370	33,379	279	13	3,354	39,423	2,715	99,328	236,861
Wallum	572,490	2,291	23,688	282	3,591	435	69,099	1,084	5,359	105,829
Western Cape and Gulf	47,372,155	19,126	655,617		4,584	8,429	568,967	2,610	924,157	2,183,490
Wet Tropics	2,898,940	10,975	66,705	191	2,312	328	47,626	1,608	50,302	180,047

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.