Habitat · Australian marine parks

Tidal marshes in Australian marine parks

  • Maxwell et al. 2024 map tidal marsh soil carbon in the top metre inside 72 of the marine parks that have a page on Biohotspot.
Parks listed
72
With soil carbon mapped
72

The parks

Marine parks with a page that hold tidal marshes, with each park's figures
ParkSoil carbon, tt per ha
Nooramunga Marine & Coastal Park (Vic)1,084,785190
Upper Gulf St Vincent (SA)569,292167
Upper Spencer Gulf (SA)523,333163
Fitzroy River (Qld)507,784188
Great Sandy (Qld)475,401224
Moreton Bay (Qld)357,835236
Encounter (SA)335,336225
Port Stephens - Great Lakes (NSW)248,706249
Maaroom (Qld)238,806216
Shark Bay (WA)219,615190
Adelaide (SA)202,551188
Batemans (NSW)200,669288
Sedimentary Deposits Reserve (WA)170,127240
Corner Inlet Marine and Coastal Park (Vic)158,527160
Thorny Passage (SA)156,271212
River Derwent (Tas)149,131309
Port Phillip Heads (Vic)114,440294
Jumpinpin-Broadwater (Qld)113,443254
Pumicestone Channel (Qld)104,985247
Unnamed (Duck Bay) (Tas)104,018204
Rodds Harbour (Qld)97,543196
Solitary Islands (NSW)81,490286
Franklin Harbor (SA)79,112152
Barker Inlet-St Kilda (SA)77,993189
Broad Sound (Qld)73,302189
Shallow Inlet Marine and Coastal Park (Vic)70,633205
Kinkuna (Qld)68,809207
Kauri Creek (Qld)65,359237
Hervey Bay - Tin Can Bay (Qld)63,850216
Tin Can Inlet (Qld)60,480243
Noosa River (Qld)56,984220
West Coast Bays (SA)56,595172
St Kilda-Chapman Creek (SA)49,771193
Cleveland Bay (Qld)44,324220
Beelbi (Qld)43,223198
Eastern Spencer Gulf (SA)36,005192
Lower Yorke Peninsula (SA)33,104234
Seventeen Seventy-Round Hill (Qld)32,898213
Nuyts Archipelago (SA)32,446170
Jervis Bay (NSW)32,296326
Staaten-Gilbert (Qld)29,080228
Starcke River (Ngulun) (Qld)28,539232
Lower South East (SA)27,962255
Walpole And Nornalup Inlets (WA)24,693253
Susan River (Qld)24,344217
Upper South East (SA)18,618258
Hays Inlet (Qld)17,235220
French Island (Vic)16,777255
Colosseum Inlet (Qld)16,590175
Lalang-gaddam (WA)16,208216
Cattle-Palm Creeks (Qld)13,915186
Corio Bay (Qld)13,668190
Deception Bay (Qld)13,168231
Towra Point (NSW)11,209294
Burdekin (Qld)10,988224
Yallock-Bulluk Marine and Coastal Park (Vic)9,931270
K'gari (Qld)8,637222
Cape Byron (NSW)7,950292
Wilsons Promontory Marine Park (Vic)7,682253
Burrum (Qld)7,648211
Bohle River (Qld)7,295209
Sir Joseph Banks Group (SA)5,791156
Corner Inlet (Vic)5,530187
West Hill (Qld)4,144172
Ninety Mile Beach (Vic)3,024322
Port of Gladstone - Rodds Bay (Qld)2,797180
Bowling Green Bay (Qld)2,731223
Girringun (Qld)1,142201
Dallachy Creek (Qld)430226
Hamelin Pool (WA)305340
Jurien Bay (WA)185214
Southern Spencer Gulf (SA)184225

“–”: 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

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.