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Aquatic Conservation Assessment (AquaBAMM) and other 2001 wetland system extents

Definition of Aquatic Conservation Assessment (AquaBAMM) and other

based on wetland mapping version 6.0 metadata

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2001 wetland system extent by Aquatic Conservation Assessment (AquaBAMM) and other metadata
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Aquatic Conservation Assessment Total area
(ha)
Wetland area by system Total
wetland area
(ha)
artificial and highly modified intertidal (saltmarsh, saltflats, mangroves) (natural) intertidal (saltmarsh, saltflats, mangroves) (slightly modified) lacustrine (natural) lacustrine (slightly modified) palustrine (natural) palustrine (slightly modified) riverine
Total 173,289,025 274,719 1,191,831 3,924 514,663 35,851 2,837,964 84,485 2,442,909 7,386,346
Baffle to Fitzroy coastal region 418,492 68 77,255 62 85 236 2,670 5,911 477 86,765
Cape York catchments 10,777,744 1,513 245,701 5,425 175 259,102 305 86,915 599,137
Eastern Gulf of Carpentaria 30,296,090 7,392 214,684 3,249 5,413 279,088 1,391 665,334 1,176,551
Great Barrier Reef catchments 32,838,347 116,620 291,574 3,557 12,388 15,801 154,243 62,291 567,452 1,223,926
Lake Eyre and Bulloo basins 51,022,919 6,788 444,747 3,212 1,594,464 1,328 656,872 2,707,412
Queensland Murray-Darling and Bulloo basins 31,458,206 81,283 43,704 4,748 353,374 9,295 154,501 646,905
South East Queensland catchments 2,456,026 30,924 33,745 285 771 1,508 68,827 2,031 33,902 171,993
Southern Gulf catchments 8,546,795 5,714 299,617 1,458 2,890 84,800 896 204,611 599,987
Wide Bay-Burnett catchments 167,103 4,082 2,821 13,170 1 20,074
Wide Bay-Burnett Great Barrier Reef connecting catchments 5,307,305 24,416 25,173 20 13 1,868 28,225 1,037 72,844 153,595

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

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 2001 wetland system extents, WetlandInfo website, accessed 25 June 2024. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/statistics/wetland-extent-2001/aca-bounding-area.html

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