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

Definition of Aquatic Conservation Assessment (AquaBAMM) and other

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2001 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 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
Baffle to Fitzroy coastal region 418,492 298 34,279 16,739 74 11 978 3 26 26 2,575 5,101 < 1 60,109
Cape York catchments 10,777,744 155,061 90,758 4,942 132,690 247 92,519 9,749 19,894 3,972 33 509,863
Eastern Gulf of Carpentaria 30,296,090 50,449 177,241 921 11,162 886 8,552 85,676 4,159 6,580 68,244 20,961 9,854 65,972 11 12 150 396 511,225
Fitzroy Great Barrier Reef connecting catchments 16,607,241 29 102,687 51,618 6,983 55 20,650 1,426 11,758 4,494 28,470 39,556 267,727
Great Barrier Reef catchments 16,277,263 69,128 14,931 3 1,559 701 156 109 34 7,880 462 17,210 17,535 259 37 8,771 7,349 554 17,547 24,547 507 34 3,425 796 351 193,886
Lake Eyre and Bulloo basins 51,022,900 421,452 20,840 62,549 41,890 1,307,872 37,838 4,229 68,224 71,065 2 11 2,035,973
Queensland Murray-Darling and Bulloo basins 31,458,206 38,321 4,462 750 17,388 18,779 66,592 29,718 34,720 72,679 105,254 2,248 1,305 1 491 5,193 10,712 584 284 409,482
South East Queensland catchments 2,456,026 2,485 22,539 8,679 525 248 14,783 9,188 4,496 30,964 3,295 7,742 104,944
Southern Gulf catchments 8,546,795 52,097 246,671 181 1,007 26,837 475 6,563 17,052 2 3,930 12,273 10,543 3,827 4,232 14 385,705
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 1,037 16,726 7,546 13 13 7,097 1,926 481 503 14,980 1,715 3,681 55,719
Total 173,335,164 3,848 506,410 614,821 460,878 26,862 8,521 156 7,565 998 1,172 79,971 106,548 1,375,826 83,133 158,887 145,064 204,363 2,506 37 270,390 12,819 157,127 10,770 128,724 164,907 16,187 45 3,470 960 747 4,553,713

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
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 the Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation, Queensland (2022) Aquatic Conservation Assessment (AquaBAMM) and other 2001 wetland habitat extents, WetlandInfo website, accessed 4 August 2026. https://wetlandinfo.detsi.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/statistics/wetland-habitat-2001/aca-bounding-area.html

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