Freshwater biogeographic province 2021 wetland system extents

Definition of freshwater biogeographic province

based on wetland mapping version 7.0

2021 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)	lacustrine (unknown degree of modification)	palustrine (natural)	palustrine (slightly modified)	riverine
Total	172,721,160	319,416	1,087,500	4,386	512,362	39,152	61	2,837,991	84,030	2,573,225	7,458,123
Central	30,487,033	126,453	242,371	3,607	12,197	17,867	13	110,481	61,639	531,692	1,106,320
Eastern Cape	1,278,291	13	48,575		3,599			24,564		19,177	95,928
Jardine	327,317	< 1	2,222					19,296		1,522	23,041
Lake Eyre and Bulloo	56,182,474	8,437			462,579	3,454	2	1,745,841	1,733	800,648	3,022,695
Murray Darling	26,252,623	93,138			23,532	4,838	< 1	205,812	11,117	133,650	472,089
South East	7,349,836	58,473	33,478	306	13	3,413	22	40,416	2,901	102,818	241,840
Wallum	572,490	2,295	23,618	282	3,595	446	4	67,539	1,070	5,350	104,199
Western Cape and Gulf	47,372,155	19,444	670,155		4,536	8,742	11	575,369	3,949	927,162	2,209,367
Wet Tropics	2,898,940	11,161	67,081	191	2,312	393	7	48,672	1,622	51,204	182,643

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.