Everyday habitat
Estuary
Where a river meets the sea, mixing fresh and salt water.
Description drafted with AI help; a person hasn't reviewed it yet.
Also called: inlet, coastal lagoon
- System
- PLOT everyday habitats, 0.1.0
- Published by
- PLOT
- Places on the record
- 1
- Names in other systems
- 8
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Level of detail
From the broadest name to the most detailed. Dashed links are PLOT's proposals, waiting for a person to confirm them.
Realm
Everyday
- Estuary
Global
National
Nothing linked yet
State
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Where it is
Each figure is one type's own, in its own layer and year. They're never added together.
Hobsons Bay
- Estuarine Flats GrasslandModelled, before 1750 · EVC 9148.7 ha
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What lives here
No species are linked to this habitat on the record yet.
Compare
Same habitat, different names
| Is | In another system | Who says so | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| overlaps | Intermittently closed and open lakes and lagoonsiucn-get FM1.3 | PLOT's proposal | everywhere it applies |
| overlaps | Permanently open riverine estuaries and baysiucn-get FM1.2 | PLOT's proposal | everywhere it applies |
| No equivalent | nothing in nvis-7 (nothing recorded yet) | — | everywhere it applies |
| broader than | Estuarine Flats Grasslandvic-evc 914 | PLOT's proposal | everywhere it applies |
| broader than | Estuarine Wetland |
Protect
Protection and status
Conservation status belongs to the official types below this one, by bioregion. Which listed communities may include patches of it comes from each listing's advice, read and checked by a person: not yet extracted (coming). A patch is shown as a listed community only when a source says it meets the listing.
Understand
How it's doing
Not yet assessed. PLOT gives a level only with a published method. Where a system publishes a benchmark for a type (a description of a good example), it is shown here as what it could be, never as a score. Benchmarks linked as sources (coming)
Mend
Next steps and patterns
Next steps that name this habitat, and patterns of repair (coming)
Traditional Owner knowledge: none is shown for this habitat yet. It appears only from Traditional Owner organisations' own published statements, or with their consent. A Traditional Owner organisation can add its statement or ask for a correction.
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How we know
- PLOT everyday habitats, PLOT, 0.1.0. Licence PLOT's own draft classification (wording AI-drafted, for review), checked by Robert Laing (PLOT owner) on 2026-10-22
- Mapping anything into it is a PLOT method, labelled as such. Realms follow the IUCN GET realms.
- Modelled extents: layer vic/evc1750, map release vic-2026-10-22, cut to each place's confirmed outline. evc-extent/0.1: modelled EVC polygons intersected with the place's confirmed outline in EPSG:9473 (GDA2020 Australian Albers), hectares summed per EVC and layer; pieces under 0.1 ha left out