Habitat · Australian marine parks
Mangroves in Australian marine parks
- Global Mangrove Watch v3 maps mangroves (2020 extent) inside 82 of the marine parks that have a page on Biohotspot.
- Sanderman et al. 2018 map mangrove soil carbon in the top metre inside 76 of them.
- Parks listed
- 82
- With area mapped
- 82
- With soil carbon mapped
- 76
The parks
| Park | Mangroves, ha | Soil carbon, t | t per ha |
|---|---|---|---|
| Great Barrier Reef Coast (Qld) | 90,184 | – | – |
| Lalang-gaddam (WA) | 43,867 | 17,350,357 | 283 |
| Broad Sound (Qld) | 19,455 | 5,997,871 | 229 |
| Escape River (Qld) | 14,851 | 6,426,373 | 374 |
| Great Sandy (Qld) | 12,090 | 4,588,150 | 234 |
| Moreton Bay (Qld) | 11,745 | 4,359,538 | 279 |
| Fitzroy River (Qld) | 11,654 | 4,018,422 | 223 |
| Maaroom (Qld) | 7,897 | 2,267,180 | 227 |
| Burdekin (Qld) | 7,764 | 2,647,449 | 242 |
| Upper Spencer Gulf (SA) | 6,898 | 2,633,082 | 271 |
| Hinchinbrook (Qld) | 6,405 | 2,941,211 | 380 |
| Pine River Bay (Qld) | 6,143 | 3,219,919 | 417 |
| Repulse (Qld) | 6,141 | 2,070,867 | 262 |
| Cape Palmerston - Rocky Dam (Qld) | 5,055 | 1,502,220 | 231 |
| Starcke River (Ngulun) (Qld) | 4,743 | 1,926,265 | 300 |
| Colosseum Inlet (Qld) | 4,681 | 1,401,854 | 251 |
| Princess Charlotte Bay (Qld) | 3,994 | 3,157,297 | 275 |
| Jumpinpin-Broadwater (Qld) | 3,789 | 1,346,219 | 292 |
| Great Barrier Reef (Commonwealth) | 3,657 | – | – |
| Rodds Harbour (Qld) | 3,452 | 1,097,199 | 249 |
| Thuwathu/Walalu (Qld) | 3,412 | 1,851,893 | 284 |
| Trinity Inlet (Qld) | 3,336 | 1,144,099 | 280 |
| Yawuru Nagulagun / Roebuck Bay (WA) | 3,082 | 886,390 | 272 |
| Sand Bay (Qld) | 2,972 | 946,989 | 247 |
| Cattle-Palm Creeks (Qld) | 2,956 | 878,273 | 202 |
| Temple Bay (Qld) | 2,831 | 1,044,552 | 284 |
| Halifax (Qld) | 2,821 | 964,085 | 287 |
| Yawuru (WA) | 2,592 | 701,078 | 268 |
| Morning Inlet - Bynoe River (Qld) | 2,587 | 1,812,397 | 273 |
| Bardi Jawi Gaarra (WA) | 2,389 | 1,374,675 | 318 |
| Cleveland Bay (Qld) | 2,349 | 1,050,745 | 244 |
| Adelaide (SA) | 2,307 | 962,109 | 376 |
| Susan River (Qld) | 2,119 | 744,025 | 239 |
| Edgecumbe Bay (Qld) | 1,958 | 622,526 | 216 |
| Upper Gulf St Vincent (SA) | 1,880 | 785,295 | 335 |
| Corio Bay (Qld) | 1,860 | 554,692 | 238 |
| Pumicestone Channel (Qld) | 1,847 | 680,128 | 257 |
| Nooramunga Marine & Coastal Park (Vic) | 1,798 | 602,106 | 258 |
| Shark Bay (WA) | 1,793 | 597,058 | 279 |
| Margaret Bay (Wuthathi) (Qld) | 1,667 | 904,013 | 321 |
| Barker Inlet-St Kilda (SA) | 1,553 | 634,317 | 367 |
| Nassau River (Qld) | 1,513 | 896,041 | 272 |
| Staaten-Gilbert (Qld) | 1,506 | 860,613 | 275 |
| West Hill (Qld) | 1,477 | 484,023 | 216 |
| Nuyts Archipelago (SA) | 1,452 | 700,340 | 293 |
| Cawarral Creek (Qld) | 1,308 | 541,344 | 262 |
| Kauri Creek (Qld) | 1,208 | 516,541 | 237 |
| Hull River (Qld) | 1,031 | 385,030 | 279 |
| Franklin Harbor (SA) | 988 | 505,170 | 303 |
| Corner Inlet Marine and Coastal Park (Vic) | 851 | 274,417 | 268 |
| Dallachy Creek (Qld) | 805 | 232,838 | 209 |
| Eighty Mile Beach (WA) | 730 | 216,874 | 243 |
| Midge (Qld) | 724 | 254,222 | 218 |
| Hays Inlet (Qld) | 633 | 219,270 | 250 |
| Kolan River (Qld) | 605 | 243,744 | 255 |
| Wreck Creek (Qld) | 554 | 185,419 | 231 |
| Mayala (WA) | 498 | 511,378 | 346 |
| Silver Plains (Qld) | 469 | 203,515 | 223 |
| Seventeen Seventy-Round Hill (Qld) | 462 | 179,195 | 251 |
| Djelk - Stage 2 (NT) | 443 | 358,187 | 299 |
| Bohle River (Qld) | 384 | 192,952 | 218 |
| Murray River (Qld) | 373 | 124,495 | 221 |
| Baffle Creek (Qld) | 346 | 170,719 | 230 |
| Towra Point (NSW) | 340 | 144,378 | 254 |
| Moreton Banks (Qld) | 308 | 122,894 | 336 |
| Deception Bay (Qld) | 292 | 120,146 | 250 |
| Annan River (Qld) | 221 | 108,810 | 245 |
| French Island (Vic) | 220 | 80,431 | 294 |
| St Kilda-Chapman Creek (SA) | 182 | 91,569 | 374 |
| Ball Bay - Sand Bay (Qld) | 166 | 89,443 | 270 |
| Myora - Amity Banks (Qld) | 137 | 75,182 | 297 |
| Peel Island (Qld) | 124 | 60,336 | 389 |
| North Kimberley (WA) | 123 | – | – |
| West Coast Bays (SA) | 104 | – | – |
| Tin Can Inlet (Qld) | 86.9 | 55,328 | 230 |
| Sir Joseph Banks Group (SA) | 49.9 | 28,728 | 342 |
| Great Sandy Island (WA) | 43.0 | 36,134 | 334 |
| Repulse Bay (Qld) | 33.7 | 26,698 | 279 |
| Ningaloo (WA) | 24.6 | 15,810 | 324 |
| Sedimentary Deposits Reserve (WA) | 9.70 | 2,389 | 190 |
| Batemans (NSW) | 3.70 | – | – |
| Corner Inlet (Vic) | 0.30 | – | – |
“–”: not mapped for that park. Each row is the park's own figure; the rows are not added up, because some parks overlap (a state park inside Commonwealth waters, for example).
Sources and licences
- Global Mangrove Watch (GMW) · UNEP-WCMC / ZenodoLicence: CC BY (UNEP WESR catalogue entry); not stated on the UNEP-WCMC resources page or the Zenodo v3 pageBunting, P.; Rosenqvist, A.; Hilarides, L.; Lucas, R.M.; Thomas, T.; Tadono, T.; Worthington, T.A.; Spalding, M.; Murray, N.J.; Rebelo, L-M. Global Mangrove Extent Change 1996 - 2020: Global Mangrove Watch Version 3.0. Remote Sensing. 2022.
- Global mangrove soil carbon, 0–100 cm (100 m mosaic) · Woods Hole Research Center / The Nature ConservancyLicence: CC0 1.0Sanderman J. et al. (2018) A global map of mangrove forest soil carbon at 30 m spatial resolution. Environ. Res. Lett. 13 055002. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/aabe1c
A habitat has a page when at least 3 marine parks with a page hold it. Habitat areas are the habitat map's polygons inside each park; soil carbon is the map cells that touch it. Coral reefs, seagrass and saltmarsh extent are not measured: their licences forbid derived figures or are unclear.