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Aquatic Conservation Assessment (AquaBAMM) and other 2017 wetland habitat extents

Definition of Aquatic Conservation Assessment (AquaBAMM) and other

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2017 wetland habitat extent by Aquatic Conservation Assessment (AquaBAMM) and other metadata
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Aquatic Conservation Assessment Total area
(ha)		 Wetland area by habitat Total
wetland area
(ha)
INT01a INT01b INT02 LA14 LA15 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 173,289,025 4,076 497,308 611,495 460,877 26,862 8,521 156 7,565 998 1,172 79,931 106,345 1,375,807 83,078 159,021 144,544 203,960 3,044 37 269,307 13,007 157,366 10,616 126,459 164,387 15,995 45 3,463 960 746 4,537,147
Baffle to Fitzroy coastal region 418,492 296 34,265 16,717 74 11 977 3 26 26 2,572 5,101 < 1 60,068
Cape York catchments 10,777,744 155,066 90,750 4,942 132,643 247 92,517 9,748 19,894 3,972 33 509,811
Eastern Gulf of Carpentaria 30,296,090 50,449 177,238 921 11,152 886 8,552 85,644 4,159 6,573 68,233 20,954 9,656 65,833 11 12 150 395 510,819
Great Barrier Reef catchments 32,838,347 29 162,801 63,358 3 1,559 7,684 156 164 34 7,737 461 17,181 17,529 257 37 28,476 1,426 19,376 5,038 44,895 63,883 505 34 3,418 796 351 447,192
Lake Eyre and Bulloo basins 51,022,919 421,450 20,840 62,525 41,850 1,307,854 37,826 4,220 68,224 71,033 2 11 2,035,835
Queensland Murray-Darling and Bulloo basins 31,458,206 38,321 4,462 750 17,372 18,772 66,592 29,714 34,927 72,160 104,895 2,787 1,297 1 492 5,036 10,144 512 284 408,518
South East Queensland catchments 2,456,026 2,717 22,477 8,619 524 248 14,840 9,397 4,475 30,737 3,231 7,604 104,868
Southern Gulf catchments 8,546,795 52,097 246,671 181 1,007 26,834 475 6,525 17,049 2 3,930 12,273 10,543 3,824 4,232 14 385,658
Wide Bay-Burnett catchments 167,103 3,445 637 2,074 750 3,599 28 8,502 45 19,080
Wide Bay-Burnett Great Barrier Reef connecting catchments 5,307,305 1,034 16,708 7,506 13 13 6,969 1,905 480 515 14,836 1,689 3,630 55,298

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

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
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) Aquatic Conservation Assessment (AquaBAMM) and other 2017 wetland habitat extents, WetlandInfo website, accessed 8 May 2025. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/statistics/wetland-habitat-2017/aca-bounding-area.html

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