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Regional natural resource management (NRM) body 2005 wetland habitat extents

Definition of regional natural resource management (NRM) body

based on wetland mapping version 6.0 metadata

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2005 wetland habitat extent by regional natural resource management (NRM) body metadata
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Regional NRM body Total area
(ha)		 Wetland area by habitat Total
wetland area
(ha)
INT01a INT01b INT02 LA14 LA15 LA16a LA16b LC06 LC07 LC08a LC08b LC09 PA10 PA11a PA11b PA11c PA12a PA12b PA12c PA12d PA13 PC02a PC02b PC02c PC02d PC04a PC04c PC04d PC04e PC05 XX99-P-A XX99-P-C
Total 175,939,321 3,491 493,552 598,834 466,827 21,198 38 179 8,382 156 7,620 998 1,172 83,908 107,399 1,374,946 82,555 157,168 142,457 207,357 3,050 28 291,476 13,061 145,185 10,190 121,978 179,490 16,212 40 3,324 3,276 4,700 4,550,248
Burnett Mary Regional Group 5,576,770 1,242 28,161 11,871 13 2,102 760 15,783 4,193 9,193 499 18,415 1,709 6,265 100,206
Cape York Natural Resource Management 13,652,054 143,040 97,390 4,997 155,087 262 92,006 11,587 43,236 3,824 12 2 551,443
Desert Channels Group 51,026,696 423,411 20,097 64,111 42,969 1,306,655 35,782 4,099 66,314 71,798 2 11 2,035,251
Fitzroy Basin Association 15,676,198 29 70,800 39,496 6,943 55 11,340 1,426 960 4,352 24,451 39,666 2,914 202,430
Gulf Savannah NRM 19,406,284 37,839 135,420 129 6,367 1,578 71,899 4,145 66,644 20,721 9,551 57,847 10 12 377 161 412,700
Healthy Land and Water 2,355,270 2,220 16,155 4,778 507 239 10,394 7,178 4,277 26,483 3,141 5,343 80,715
NQ Dry Tropics 14,087,421 30,157 9,944 206 1,057 641 109 2,463 8,077 2,983 16,313 16,996 260 28 1,236 567 207 1,251 18,076 2 1 2,694 922 114,189
Reef Catchments 933,525 34,258 12,222 8,407 4,252 2,845 3,528 65,512
Southern Gulf NRM 19,479,544 66,617 278,624 585 38 179 12 1,007 32,117 1,362 12,815 30,629 4,175 5,592 14,088 10,516 3,709 5,788 14 467,868
Southern Queensland Landscapes 31,436,051 42,496 43 784 17,333 17,869 66,929 29,397 33,680 71,968 105,782 2,791 1,096 1 5,026 7,483 574 283 191 446 404,171
Terrain NRM 2,222,960 44,346 4,564 156 548 3,043 6,923 2,586 106 16,016 5,914 498 28 3,299 255 88,284
Torres Strait Regional Authority 86,547 22,180 4,524 2 479 106 186 27,478

Note that these totals may be lower than the Queensland totals due to incomplete coverage of regional natural resource management (NRM) bodies.

Wetland habitat code descriptions
INT01a Mangroves - Casuarina
INT01b Mangroves - other
INT02 Salt marsh and salt flats
LA14 Arid and semi-arid saline lake
LA15 Arid and semi-arid floodplain lake
LA16a Arid and semi-arid other non-floodplain lake
LA16b Arid and semi-arid non-floodplain clay plan lake
LC06 Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain lake
LC07 Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain rock lake
LC08a Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain sand (window) lake
LC08b Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain sand (perched) lake
LC09 Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain soil lake
PA10 Arid and semi-arid saline swamp
PA11a Arid and semi-arid floodplain tree swamp
PA11b Arid and semi-arid floodplain shrub swamp
PA11c Arid and semi-arid floodplain grass, sedge and herb swamp
PA12a Arid and semi-arid non-floodplain tree swamp
PA12b Arid and semi-arid non-floodplain shrub swamp
PA12c Arid and semi-arid non-floodplain grass, sedge and herb swamp
PA12d Arid and semi-arid other non-floodplain swamp
PA13 Arid and semi-arid Great Artesian Basin fed spring swamp
PC02a Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain tree (Melaleuca and Eucalypt) swamp
PC02b Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain wet heath swamp
PC02c Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain grass, sedge, and herb swamp
PC02d Coastal and sub-coastal other non-floodplain swamp
PC04a Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain tree (Melaleuca and Eucalypt) swamp
PC04c Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain grass, sedge, and herb swamp
PC04d Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain wet heath swamp
PC04e Coastal and sub-coastal other floodplain swamp
PC05 Coastal and sub-coastal tree (palm) swamp
XX99-P-A Unknown - Swamp - Arid and semi-arid
XX99-P-C Unknown - Swamp - Coastal and sub-coastal

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) Regional natural resource management (NRM) body 2005 wetland habitat extents, WetlandInfo website, accessed 1 February 2025. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/statistics/wetland-habitat-2005/nrm.html

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