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Queensland Wetlands Program

Facts & maps

Modelling

Wetland hydrological models

Wetland site scale

Wetland contributing catchment model

Wetland catchment/subcatchment model

Intertidal and subtidal mapping background

Intertidal and subtidal mapping FAQs

Wetland mapping background

Queensland wetland mapping FAQs

Queensland Wetland Classification Database (QWCD)

Attributes by theme

Attribute categories

Mapping data fields

Mapping data field details

Digital Earth Australia (DEA) Wetlands Insight Tool (QLD)

Groundwater dependent ecosystem mapping background

Groundwater dependent ecosystem FAQs

Groundwater dependent ecosystem and other mapping rule-sets

Differences between GDE mapping rule-sets in South East Queensland

Groundwater dependent ecosystem handbooks

Groundwater dependent ecosystem spatial datasets and attribute fields

Potential groundwater dependent ecosystem aquifer mapping background

Potential groundwater dependent ecosystem aquifer spatial dataset and attribute fields

Get mapping help

WetlandMaps

Spatial metadata

Mapping data links

What are wetlands?

Definitions & classification

Wetland definition

Wetland systems

Wetland classification and types

Queensland wetland classification scheme

Typology

Queensland Intertidal and Subtidal Ecosystem Classification Scheme

Queensland River Classification Scheme

River classification attributes (Module 3)

Queensland Waterhole Classification Scheme

Freshwater biogeographic regionalisation method

Management

Whole-of-System, Values-Based Framework

Underlying considerations for Whole-of-System, Values-Based Framework

Identify system parts and how the system works

Identify existing and potential intrinsic values and ecosystem services

Identify stakeholders and values for beneficiaries

Identify current and potential threats/pressures and opportunities

Define objectives

Identify a mix of management interventions

Detailed design and analysis

Implementation and adaptive management

Aquatic ecosystem rehabilitation

Aquatic ecosystems rehabilitation background

Aquatic Ecosystem Rehabilitation Process

Get help using the Rehabilitation Process

Triggers and initiatives for rehabilitation

Key principles for rehabilitation

Step 1: Understand whole-of-system and values

Information sources for aquatic ecosystem rehabilitation planning

Step 2: Based on Step 1, determine need and objective/s

Systems (components and processes)

Identify existing and potential ecosystem services

Identify stakeholders and values for beneficiaries

Identify existing and potential threats, pressures and opportunities

Step 3: Review needs and objectives

Step 4: Identify a mix of management interventions

Best management practices including pressure reduction

Engagement, extension and education

Systems repair

Applied research and monitoring

Engineered solutions

Planning and institutional arrangements

Intervention options

Active revegetation

Alignment training (timber pile fields)

Aquatic fauna pest control

Assisted natural regeneration

Bank battering

Barrier remediation through biopassage structures (fishways)

Community and stakeholder engagement, extension and education

Discrete log jam structures

Fire regime management

Gabion baskets

Geotextiles

Grass chutes

Instream wood management

Lacustrine and Palustrine ecosystem rehabilitation approaches

Large wood placement

Marine and estuarine ecosystem rehabilitation approaches

Passive management

Reinstate floodplain connection

Riparian fencing to control stock/feral animal access

Rock armouring

Rock chute

Sediment extraction

Stormwater management

Timber revetment

Timber sleeper drop weirs

Treatment systems

Weed management

Step 5: Produce detailed design

Step 6: Implementation

Step 7: Maintenance, Monitoring, Evaluation, Adaptation, and Sharing (MMEAS)

Aquatic ecosystem rehabilitation fact sheet

Queensland River Rehabilitation Management Guideline

Wetland services and values

First Nations' values

Values

Economic valuation of ecosystem services

Wetland services (services)

What services do wetlands provide?

Economic valuation of values and services

Beneficiaries and stakeholders

How are beneficiaries classified?

Treatment systems

For agriculture

Understand system

BMP

Treat coarse sediment

Treat nutrients, toxicants

Cost considerations (treatment systems)

Treatment system options

Algae treatment

Bioreactors

Floating wetlands

High efficiency sediment basins

Micro-nutrient dosing

Recycle pits

Sediment basins

Shellfish reefs

Treatment wetlands

Vegetated buffers and swales

Vegetated drains

For urban (WSUD) systems

For intensive

User defined treatment systems fact sheet

Wetlands and disaster management

Nationally (DIWA) and internationally important (Ramsar) wetlands

Wetland projects search tool

Wetland management tools and guides

Changes in climate

Assessing climate variability and wetlands

Pressures

Litter and illegal dumping

Litter and Illegal Dumping Management Framework (LIDMF)

Attribute-based classification scheme

Sources

Manufacturing and industrial

Roads

Urban residential

Commercial services

Landfill

Sewerage

Recreation and culture

Nature conservation

Rural and Agricultural areas

Pathways

Air

Biological

Mechanical

Water

Sinks (where waste ends up)

Freshwater

Land

Marine and intertidal

Living things (biota)

Effects on values

Human health

Animal health

Economic impacts

Cultural impacts

Actions you can take

Physical clean-up of waste pollution

Waste, sediment and pollutant traps

Transport and storage best practice

Water and wastewater treatment plants

Monitoring

Reduced waste and alternative products

User defined litter and illegal dumping fact sheet

Estuarine and marine

Feral pigs

Lacustrine and palustrine

Aquatic sediments

Bacteria/pathogens

Biota removal/disturbance

Salinity

Connectivity

Habitat removal

Hydrology

Hard surfaces

Litter (rubbish)

Nutrients

Organic matter

Pest (animal, plant) species

pH

Toxicants

Water temperature

Riverine

Nitrogen

Water management

Programs, policy and legislation

Planning and approvals

State regulatory planning

Impact Assessment

State development assessment codes

Accepted development

Environmental approvals

Reef 2050 Wetlands Strategy

Wetlands in the Great Barrier Reef Catchments Management Strategy 2016–21 (superseded)

Queensland Environmental Offsets Framework

Management of shorebirds and other waterbirds

Legislation, policy and other management initiatives for shorebirds and other waterbirds

East Asian–Australasian Flyway Partnership

Pressures on shorebirds

Managing for ecological requirements

Feeding (management)

Roosting (management)

Movement (management)

Aggregation (management)

Breeding and moulting (management)

Aquatic fauna passage (biopassage)

Barriers and instream structures

Management of barriers and instream structures

Biopassage structures (fishways)

Planning

Construction and approval

Biopassage options

Rock ramp fishway

Vertical slot fishway

Cone fishway

Bypass fishway

Trapezoidal fishway

Denil fishway

Pool and weir fishway

Mechanical fishways

Fish-friendly culverts

Removal of barrier

Biopassage structure (fishway) mapping

User defined fishway management fact sheet

Assessment, monitoring and inventory

Assessment

Aquatic Conservation Assessments (ACA) and AquaBAMM

Assessment of Common Conservation Values - Intertidal and Subtidal Environs of the Baffle to Fitzroy Coast (ACCV)

Cape York Catchments

Eastern Gulf of Carpentaria

Great Barrier Reef Catchments

Lake Eyre and Bulloo Basins

Queensland Murray-Darling and Bulloo Basins

South East Queensland

Southern Gulf Catchments

Wide Bay-Burnett catchments

Aquatic Conservation Assessment FAQs

Wetland Condition Assessment Tool (WetCAT)

Assessment toolbox

Monitoring pressure and state

Monitoring programs

Aerial Surveys of Waterbirds in Eastern Australia

Black Ross (Townsville) Water Quality Improvement Plan Event Monitoring

Cattana Wetlands Water Quality Monitoring

Central Queensland Ambient Estuary Program

Creek to Coral Community Monitoring

Ecosystem Health Monitoring Program – Estuarine and Marine

Ecosystem Health Monitoring Program – Event-based Monitoring Program

Ecosystem Health Monitoring Program – Freshwater

Environmental Flows Assessment Program (EFAP)

Fitzroy Priority Neighbourhood Catchments Water Quality Monitoring Program

Fitzroy River Enhanced Environmental Monitoring Program

Framework for the Assessment of River and Wetland Health (FARWH) – Queensland trials

Great Artesian Basin Springs Monitoring Program

Groundwater Ambient Network (GWAN) – Water quality

Groundwater Water Level Network

Lake Eyre Basin River Health Assessment

Long term Historical Trend Water Quality Monitoring Data

Lyngbya Monitoring Program

Mackay Water Quality Monitoring

Mangrove and associated communities of Moreton Bay

Moreton Bay Marine Park Monitoring Program

Moreton Bay Regional Council Waterway Health Monitoring Program

Murray-Darling Basin Authority – Basin Salinity Management Strategy Annual Reporting and Audit

Pioneer Valley Water Board Monitoring

Port Curtis Integrated Monitoring Program (PCIMP)

Queensland Murray-Darling Committee Community Monitoring Program

Queensland wetland extent change mapping

Reef Water Quality Protection Plan (Reef Plan) Paddock to Reef Integrated Monitoring, Modelling and Reporting Program (Paddock to Reef Program)

South East Queensland (SEQ) Catchments Community Water Quality Monitoring Program

Stream and Estuary Assessment Program (SEAP) – Freshwater

Surface Water Ambient Network (SWAN) – Water quality

Surface Water Monitoring Network

The Lakes Environmental and Ecosystem Health Monitoring Program

Water Quality of Port Curtis and Tributaries

Wetland walkabout monitoring

Point source monitoring

Sewage treatment facilities and monitoring points

Invertebrates and wetland monitoring

Stream macroinvertebrate richness - a case study

Inventory

Inventory, assessment and monitoring of shorebirds and other waterbirds

Shorebird monitoring

Ecology

Cycles, spheres, energy and connectivity

Spheres

Ecological cycles

Connectivity and the landscape

Plants, animals, soils, water and more (components)

Atmosphere - Chemical

Atmosphere - Physical

Light

Aquatic macrophytes and turbidity

Productivity in the Murray-Darling Province—A case study

Temperature

Biota

Wetland fauna (animals)

Fauna - Taxonomic and Life Cycles

Invertebrates

Arthropoda

Arachnida

Crustacea

Insecta

Birds

Identifying waterbirds

Shorebirds

Shorebird locations in Queensland

Species distribution overview

Shorebirds South East Gulf of Carpentaria

Shorebirds Cape York Peninsula

Shorebirds Cooktown to the Whitsunday Islands

Shorebirds Repulse Bay to Shoalwater

Shorebirds Corio Bay to Baffle Creek

Shorebirds South East coastline

Breeding and moult (Shorebirds)

Migration (Shorebirds)

Roosting (Shorebirds)

East Asian—Australasian Flyway

Fish

Life cycle of Golden Perch (Macquaria ambigua)

Life cycle of Hyrtl's catfish (Neosilurus hyrtlii)

Life cycle of Rainbowfish (Melanotaenia splendida)

Life cycle of eel-tailed catfish (Tandanus tandanus)

Murray River cod (Maccullochella peelii peelii)

Frogs

Mammals

Reptiles

Murray River turtle (Emydura macquarii)

Fauna - Wetland Indicator Species List

Fauna Structure

Fauna - Functional

Fauna - Pests

Feral pigs

Wetland flora (plants)

Flora - Taxonomic

Flora - Wetland Indicator Species List

Flora Structure

Mangroves

Mangrove uses

Mangrove dieback

Mangrove dieback in the Gulf of Carpentaria

Mangroves and associated communities of Moreton Bay

Seagrass

Riparian vegetation

Flora - Weeds

Fungi

Eubacteria

Chromists

Substrate (including geology and soils)

Substrate composition

Substrate consolidation

Substrate grain size

Substrate (salinity)

Soils

Substrate productivity

Acid sulfate soils

Peat

Wetland soils

Terrain

Terrain pattern

Terrain morphology

Terrain roughness

Water (chemical and quality)

Alkalinity (water)

Carbon in water and wetlands

Nitrogen (water)

Oxygen (water and sediments)

Phosphorous (water)

Salinity (water)

pH (water)

Water - Physical

Clarity and colour

Temperature (water)

Tidal range

Water source

Geology and lithology

How wetlands function (processes)

Adsorption and Desorption

Aeolian

Aggregation (biota)

Anthropogenic activities

Wetland hydrological modification conceptual models

Bunding

Bund creating an artificial wetland

Bund in a channel

Bund outside a channel

Constructed channel

Constructed channel - creating an artificial wetland

Constructed channel in a wetland

Controlled surface hydrology

Controlled surface hydrology creating an artificial wetland

Controlled surface hydrology in a channel

Controlled surface hydrology outside a channel

Cultivation and cropping in a wetland

Excavation

Excavation creating an artificial wetland

Excavation in a channel

Excavation outside a channel

Partial drainage

Partial drainage

Partial drainage causing conversion to an intertidal wetland

Partial infilling

Partial infilling

Partial infilling causing conversion from an intertidal wetland

Carbon processes and cycle

Wetlands and the carbon cycle

Climatic processes

Cyclones

Deposition and Sedimentation

Drought

Erosion

Evaporation and evapotranspiration

Flooding

Groundwater discharge

Groundwater recharge

Light availability and productivity

Migration

Movement (ecology)

Nitrogen processes and cycle

Lacustrine

Mangrove

Palustrine

Rainforest

Oxidation and reduction (redox)

Photosynthesis

Precipitation (including rainfall), runoff and infiltration

Reproduction and breeding

Roosting

Stratification

Water processes

Catchment stories

Hydrology

Water regime

River processes

River flows (hydrograph)

Sediment processes

Wetland systems (aquatic ecosystems)

Lacustrine

Arid saline lake

Arid floodplain lake

Arid non-floodplain lake

Arid permanent lake

Coastal floodplain lake

Coastal non-floodplain rock lake

Coastal non-floodplain sand lake – Window

Coastal non-floodplain sand lake—Perched

Coastal non-floodplain soil lake

Riverine

Freshwater Biogeographic Provinces

Central

Lake Eyre and Bulloo

Murray-Darling

South-East

Wallum

Western Cape and Gulf

Wet Tropics

Riverine conceptual models—Background

Palustrine

Arid and semi-arid grass, sedge and herb swamp

Arid and semi-arid lignum swamp

Arid and semi-arid tree swamp

Arid and semi-arid saline swamp

Coastal and subcoastal floodplain grass, sedge, herb swamp

Coastal and subcoastal floodplain tree swamp

Coastal and subcoastal floodplain wet heath swamp

Coastal and subcoastal saline swamp

Coastal and subcoastal tree swamp—Palm

Coastal and subcoastal non-floodplain grass sedge and herb swamp

Coastal and subcoastal non-floodplain tree swamp

Coastal and subcoastal non-floodplain wet heath swamp

Estuarine

Marine

Intertidal and subtidal (estuarine and marine) ecology

Intertidal and subtidal attributes

Benthic depth

Terrain morphology

Terrain relative relief

Terrain roughness

Terrain slope

Energy magnitude

Structural macrobiota composition

Substrate composition

Substrate consolidation

Substrate grain size

Tidal inundation

Intertidal and subtidal ecosystem types of Central Queensland

Groundwater dependent ecosystems

Alluvia—overview

Alluvia—upper catchment

Alluvia—mid-catchment

Alluvia—lower catchment

Alluvia—closed drainage systems

Alluvia—modified (dams)

Alluvia—recharge process (inundation)

Canal estates (brackish)

Canal estates (estuarine)

Catchment constrictions

Conceptual models (types)

Coastal sand masses (high dunes)

Coastal sand masses (beach ridges)

Inland sand ridges

Fractured rocks

Lower Balonne alluvial floodplain

Wind-blown inland sand dunefields

Low-lying coastal swamps

Sandy plains

Permeable rocks

BlueBottle Spring

Oasis Spring

Sedimentary rocks (Great Artesian Basin)

Sedimentary rocks (Clarence-Moreton Basin)

Silkstone Formation

Spring ecosystems of the Surat and southern Bowen Basins

Petrie Formation along the shoreline of Moreton Bay

Goondoola Basin

Exclusion zones

Recharge zones

High-level alluvia

Aquifers and caves

Cave ecosystems

Resources

User defined wetlands fact sheet

Interactive tools and case studies

Assessment Toolbox

Conceptual model case study series

Exploring our wetlands

Hydro-climate tool

Hydro-climate FAQs

Moreton Bay mangroves and associated communities interactive map viewer

User defined treatment systems fact sheet

Wetland soil case studies

WetlandSummary—facts and maps

Wetland projects search tool

Reports and publications

Reports

Fact sheets

Brochures and posters

Wetlands of Queensland book

Newsletters, magazines and journals

What's new—WetlandUpdate

Education for schools

School wetland excursions

Shorebirds and other waterbirds

On-line education modules

Events

Pictorial conceptual models

Videos and interactive maps

Glossary of technical terms

Training, funding and employment

Bibliography