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Water Quality Improvement Plan area 2005 wetland habitat extents

Definition of Water Quality Improvement Plan area

based on wetland mapping version 6.0 metadata

Display areas in
2005 wetland habitat extent by Water Quality Improvement Plan area metadata
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WQIP area Total area
(ha)		 Wetland area by habitat Total
wetland area
(ha)
INT01a INT01b INT02 LA15 LC06 LC07 LC08a LC09 PA10 PA11a PA11c PA12a PA12c PA12d PA13 PC02a PC02b PC02c PC02d PC04a PC04c PC04d PC04e PC05 XX99-P-A XX99-P-C
Total 42,620,488 957 230,658 109,037 1,057 7,598 156 5,011 164 2,463 8,042 2,983 16,666 19,884 260 28 53,857 3,265 42,923 5,164 64,791 77,638 7,475 30 3,312 2,694 4,092 670,203
Burnett Mary 5,302,218 928 14,899 7,090 13 13 6,813 1,920 477 499 14,006 1,668 3,591 51,918
Eastern Cape York 4,547,972 57,599 39,579 4,997 19,488 34,185 6,481 9,389 3,387 33 175,139
Fitzroy 15,610,537 29 57,370 36,068 6,943 55 11,077 1,345 915 4,352 24,383 39,084 2,914 184,534
Burdekin 14,045,972 25,968 9,659 1,057 641 109 2,463 8,042 2,983 16,117 16,841 260 28 1,226 567 207 1,251 18,055 2 1 2,694 922 109,092
Mackay Whitsunday 904,077 33,132 12,119 8,349 4,238 2,842 3,528 64,207
Wet Tropics 2,209,711 41,689 4,523 156 548 3,043 6,904 2,542 106 15,828 5,914 498 28 3,278 255 85,314

Note that these totals may be lower than the Queensland totals due to incomplete coverage of Water Quality Improvement Plan areas.

Wetland habitat code descriptions
INT01a Mangroves - Casuarina
INT01b Mangroves - other
INT02 Salt marsh and salt flats
LA15 Arid and semi-arid floodplain 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
LC09 Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain soil lake
PA10 Arid and semi-arid saline swamp
PA11a Arid and semi-arid floodplain tree swamp
PA11c Arid and semi-arid floodplain grass, sedge and herb swamp
PA12a Arid and semi-arid non-floodplain tree 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) Water Quality Improvement Plan area 2005 wetland habitat extents, WetlandInfo website, accessed 1 February 2025. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/statistics/wetland-habitat-2005/wqip-area.html

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