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Aquatic Conservation Assessment (AquaBAMM) and other 2021 wetland habitat extents

Definition of Aquatic Conservation Assessment (AquaBAMM) and other

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2021 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 LA17 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 4,108 498,000 610,755 460,846 26,862 1,239 8,520 156 7,565 998 1,172 79,801 106,282 1,375,800 83,079 158,797 144,439 203,735 3,044 37 269,143 12,967 157,308 10,592 126,194 164,365 15,966 45 3,459 960 746 4,536,979
Baffle to Fitzroy coastal region 418,492 294 34,265 16,717 74 11 977 3 26 26 2,572 5,101 < 1 60,066
Cape York catchments 10,777,744 155,062 90,748 4,942 132,632 247 92,517 9,748 19,894 3,972 33 509,794
Eastern Gulf of Carpentaria 30,296,090 50,449 177,234 921 11,152 886 8,552 85,629 4,159 6,532 68,232 20,954 9,656 65,833 11 12 150 395 510,755
Great Barrier Reef catchments 32,838,347 29 162,801 63,363 3 1,559 5 7,683 156 164 34 7,736 461 17,162 17,463 257 37 28,398 1,426 19,334 5,019 44,810 63,869 505 34 3,414 796 351 446,871
Lake Eyre and Bulloo basins 51,022,919 421,439 20,840 62,397 41,815 1,307,849 37,828 4,166 68,225 71,040 2 11 2,035,614
Queensland Murray-Darling and Bulloo basins 31,458,206 38,301 4,462 750 17,370 18,744 66,589 29,713 34,792 72,053 104,770 2,787 1,291 1 492 5,036 10,087 512 284 408,035
South East Queensland catchments 2,456,026 2,752 23,174 7,880 524 248 14,794 9,360 4,461 30,648 3,226 7,575 104,641
Southern Gulf catchments 8,546,795 52,097 246,671 181 1,234 1,007 26,834 475 6,525 17,048 2 3,930 12,273 10,543 3,824 4,232 14 386,891
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 1,033 16,708 7,506 13 13 6,946 1,902 479 511 14,803 1,688 3,629 55,230

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
LA17 Arid and semi-arid permanently inundated 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 2021 wetland habitat extents, WetlandInfo website, accessed 8 May 2025. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/statistics/wetland-habitat/aca-bounding-area.html

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