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

Definition of Aquatic Conservation Assessment (AquaBAMM) and other

based on wetland mapping version 6.0 metadata

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2017 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 173,289,025 312,315 1,190,657 4,196 514,650 37,775 2,832,242 86,552 2,430,277 7,408,664
Baffle to Fitzroy coastal region 418,492 73 77,185 86 85 236 2,660 5,911 477 86,713
Cape York catchments 10,777,744 2,362 245,705 5,425 183 259,040 305 86,905 599,925
Eastern Gulf of Carpentaria 30,296,090 9,579 214,681 3,250 5,420 278,668 1,448 661,233 1,174,278
Great Barrier Reef catchments 32,838,347 134,952 290,649 3,545 12,387 17,293 151,901 62,679 563,781 1,237,189
Lake Eyre and Bulloo basins 51,022,919 7,892 444,736 3,239 1,594,292 1,370 655,963 2,707,492
Queensland Murray-Darling and Bulloo basins 31,458,206 89,731 43,703 4,795 351,951 10,226 152,511 652,918
South East Queensland catchments 2,456,026 32,234 33,617 548 771 1,867 68,051 2,616 33,533 173,237
Southern Gulf catchments 8,546,795 7,026 299,617 1,458 2,834 84,753 896 204,635 601,220
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 28,466 25,121 17 13 1,907 27,756 1,100 71,237 155,617

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 2017 wetland system extents, WetlandInfo website, accessed 25 June 2024. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/statistics/wetland-extent-2017/aca-bounding-area.html

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