User defined wetlands fact sheet (2024)

The user defined wetlands fact sheet tool allows you to create your own Queensland Wetland Program fact sheet based on your needs. Use the topic list and then click the relevant sections you wish to include. Those sections are then placed in a PDF format.

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WetlandInfo

Queensland Wetlands Program

WetlandSummary

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Modelling

Wetland hydrological models

Wetland site scale

Wetland contributing catchment model

Wetland catchment/subcatchment model

Intertidal and subtidal ecosystem classification and mapping for Central Queensland

Intertidal and subtidal mapping FAQs

Wetland Mapping

General Queensland wetland mapping FAQs

Queensland Wetland Classification Database (QWCD)

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

Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems

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

Potential groundwater dependent ecosystem aquifer spatial dataset and attribute fields

Get mapping help

WetlandMaps

Mapping data links

What are wetlands?

Definitions and 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

Climate and Terrain - Attribute Uncertainty

IQQM - Data Assumptions

Taxonomic Resolution

Wetland 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

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Mapping Report

Rehabilitation Plan

User defined factsheet

Triggers and initiatives for rehabilitation

Key principles for rehabilitation

Step 1: Understand whole-of-system and values

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)

Queensland River Rehabilitation Management Guideline

Wetland services and 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

Treatment systems for agriculture

Understand whole-of-system

Farm and waterway best management practices

Treat coarse sediment

Treat fine sediments, nutrients and other toxicants

Cost considerations (treatment systems)

Treatment system options

Treatment systems for urban stormwater management

Treatment systems for intensive land uses

Wetlands and disaster management

Nationally (DIWA) and internationally important (Ramsar) wetlands

Wetland management tools and guides

Add links to specific 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

Pathways

Air

Wetland assessment

A landscape hazard assessment for wetlands in the Great Barrier Reef catchment

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

Wide Bay-Burnett Great Barrier Reef Connecting Catchments

Aquatic Conservation Assessment FAQs

Wetland Condition Assessment Tool (WetCAT)

Monitoring

Water quality, water quantity and aquatic ecosystem monitoring

Point source monitoring

Invertebrates and wetland monitoring

Stream macroinvertebrate richness - a case study

Inventory

Inventory, assessment and monitoring of shorebirds and other waterbirds

Shorebird monitoring

Wetland ecology

Cycles, spheres, energy and connectivity

Spheres

Ecological cycles

Walking the landscape

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

Atmosphere - Chemical

Atmosphere - Physical

Light

Aquatic macrophytes and turbidity—A case study

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

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

Frogs

Mammals

Reptiles

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

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

Soil Indicators of Queensland Wetlands

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 causing conversion to an intertidal wetland

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

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

Albert Catchment Story

Baffle Catchment Story

Black Catchment Story

Bohle Catchment Story

Bremer Catchment Story

Burnett Catchment Story

Caboolture Catchment Story

Calliope Catchment Story

Coombabah Catchment Story

Endeavour Catchment Story

Great Sandy Strait catchment story

Overview

Mainland coastal catchments

Susan River

Mary River

K'gari (Fraser Island)

Great Sandy Strait

Acknowledgements

Hydrogeology of the Great Artesian Basin

Jeannie Catchment Story

Lockyer Catchment Story

Logan Catchment Story

Lower Brisbane Catchment Story

Lower Burdekin Catchment Story

Lower Fitzroy Catchment Story

Magnetic Island Catchment Story

Maroochy and Mooloolah Catchments Story

Mary Catchment Story

Mid Brisbane Catchment Story

Murray Catchment Story

Noosa Catchment Story

Normanby catchment story

Introduction

Catchment Overview

Physical features

Natural values

Traditional Owners

Economic values

Threats

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Northern Gold Coast Catchment Story

O'Connell Catchment Story

Pine Catchment Story

Pioneer Catchment Story

Plane Catchment Story

Proserpine Catchment Story

Pumicestone Catchment Story

Redlands Catchment Story

Ross Catchment Story

Sandringham subcatchment story

Southern Gold Coast Catchment Story

Stanley Catchment Story

Upper Brisbane Catchment Story

Water Park Catchment Story

Lake Eyre Basin Catchment Story

Overview

Cooper catchment

Diamantina catchment

Georgina catchment

Acknowledgements

Hydrology

Region

Water regime

Catchment and subcatchment

Aggregation/Super reach

Land unit and subunit

Patch/Micropatch

River processes

River flows (hydrograph)

Sediment processes

Pictorial conceptual models

Lacustrine ecology

Riverine

Freshwater Biogeographic Provinces

Riverine conceptual models—Background

Palustrine ecology

Estuarine ecology

Marine ecology

Intertidal and subtidal (estuarine and marine) ecology

Intertidal and subtidal attributes

Benthic depth

Benthic 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

Avicennia-dominated mangroves

Bare areas above mean sea level (MSL)

Calcareous consolidated or intermediate substrate

Ceriops-dominated mangroves

Erect non-calcareous algae (macrophytes)

Grass

Grass herb sedge undifferentiated

Hard branching coral on consolidated substrate in shallow to deep water

Hard branching coral on consolidated substrate in very deep water

Hard branching coral on unconsolidated substrate in shallow to deep water

Hard branching coral on unconsolidated substrate in very deep

Hard non-branching coral on consolidated substrate in shallow to deep water

Hard non-branching coral on consolidated substrate in very deep water

Hard non-branching coral on unconsolidated substrate in shallow to deep water

Hard non-branching coral on unconsolidated substrate in very deep water

Hard undifferentiated coral on consolidated substrate in shallow to deep water

Hard undifferentiated coral on consolidated substrate in very deep water

Hard undifferentiated coral on unconsolidated substrate in shallow to deep water

Hard undifferentiated coral on unconsolidated substrate in very deep water

High energy over unknown substrate in very deep water

Intertidal algae

Intertidal coral

Intertidal high energy over boulders

Intertidal high energy over consolidated substrate

Intertidal high energy over gravel, including cobbles and pebbles

Intertidal high energy over intermediate substrate

Intertidal high energy over mud below mean sea level

Intertidal high energy over sand

Intertidal high energy over unconsolidated substrate of unknown texture

Intertidal low energy over boulders

Intertidal low energy over consolidated substrate

Intertidal low energy over gravel

Intertidal low energy over intermediate substrate

Intertidal low energy over mud below mean sea level

Intertidal low energy over sand

Intertidal low energy over unconsolidated substrate of unknown texture

Intertidal molluscs on consolidated substrate (shellfish reefs)

Intertidal molluscs on unconsolidated or unknown substrate

Intertidal mud above mean sea level unconsolidated mud (claypan/saltpan)

Intertidal narrow strap seagrass

Intertidal other seagrass

Intertidal ovoid seagrass

Intertidal substrate below HAT with indeterminate tidal influence

Intertidal substrate of unknown consolidation inside channel

Intertidal substrate of unknown consolidation outside channel

Intertidal unknown energy over boulders

Intertidal unknown energy over gravel

Intertidal unknown energy over mud

Intertidal unknown energy over sand

Intertidal unspecified strap seagrass

Intertidal wide strap seagrass

Mangroves undifferentiated

Mixed mangroves

Non-calcareous consolidated or intermediate substrate

Octocorallians in very deep water

Other habitat-forming intertidal biota

Other seagrass in deep water

Other seagrass in shallow water

Other subtidal molluscs on unconsolidated or intermediate substrate

Other subtidal unconsolidated or intermediate substrate

Other trees and shrubs

Ovoid seagrass in deep water

Ovoid seagrass in shallow water

Rhizophora-dominated mangroves

Sedge

Soft coral reefal gardens on unconsolidated substrate

Soft corals and other octocorallians on consolidated substrate

Subtidal boulders

Subtidal coral (undifferentiated) on unconsolidated substrate in very deep water

Subtidal cylindrical seagrass

Subtidal encrusting algae

Subtidal erect calcareous algae

Subtidal fern-like seagrass

Subtidal high energy over gravel

Subtidal high energy over mud

Subtidal high energy over sand

Subtidal high energy over unknown substrate in shallow to deep water

Subtidal low energy over gravel

Subtidal low energy over mud

Subtidal low energy over sand

Subtidal low energy over unknown substrate in shallow to deep water

Subtidal low energy over unknown substrate in very deep water

Subtidal narrow strap seagrass

Subtidal other algae

Subtidal other habitat forming biota

Subtidal oysters

Subtidal oysters on consolidated substrate

Subtidal scallop beds

Subtidal turf algae

Subtidal unspecified width strap seagrass

Subtidal wide strap seagrass

Succulent with herb

Undifferentiated coral on consolidated substrate in shallow to deep water

Undifferentiated coral on consolidated substrate in very deep water

Undifferentiated coral on unconsolidated substrate in shallow to deep water

Groundwater dependent ecosystems

Conceptual models (types)

Aquifers and caves

Resources

Interactive tools and case studies

Assessment Toolbox

Conceptual model case studies

Exploring our wetlands

Wetlands hydro-climate tool

Hydro-climate Tool Frequently Asked Questions

Moreton Bay mangroves and associated communities interactive map viewer

Wetland projects search tool

Reports and publications

Reports

Add links to specific reports

Wetland Management Profiles and other 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

Guide to pictorial conceptual modelling

Videos and interactive maps

Training, funding and employment