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Queensland Wetlands Program
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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
Invasive Aquatic Pasture grasses
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
Role of markets in the environment
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
Invasive Aquatic Pasture Grasses
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
Queensland Environmental Offsets Framework
Reef 2050 Wetlands Strategy
Wetlands in the Great Barrier Reef Catchments Management Strategy 2016–21 (superseded)
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 Great Barrier Reef Connecting 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
Olive hymenachne, para grass and Aleman grass
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
Climatic processes
Cyclones
Deposition and Sedimentation
Drought
Erosion
Evaporation and evapotranspiration
Flooding
Groundwater discharge
Groundwater recharge
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 currents
Waves (water)
Carbon processes and cycle
Wetlands and the carbon cycle
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
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 modelsÂ
Videos and interactive maps
Glossary of technical terms
Training, funding and employment
Bibliography