Vertebrate monitoring in the Australian Wet Tropics rainforest at BK16A2 (145.85488893, -17.26264035, 1600.0m above MSL) collected by Transect surveys for birds

Rainforest vertebrates have been monitored at permanent monitoring sites across the Australian Wet Tropics rainforest since 1997. Such surveys have been conducted on an ongoing basis across the Spec, Atherton, Windsor, Carbine and Bellenden Ker Uplands from various start dates after 1997 as the scale of sampling expanded to encompass the Wet Tropics region. Vertebrate taxa systematically surveyed include birds, reptiles, microhylid frogs, and mammals (spotlighting).

自1997年起，澳大利亚湿热带雨林的永久性监测点便开始对雨林脊椎动物进行监测。随着采样规模逐步扩大至覆盖整个湿热带地区，自1997年后的不同起始日期起，此类调查在斯佩克、阿瑟顿、温莎、卡宾及贝伦登克尔高地持续开展。系统调查的脊椎动物类群包括鸟类、爬行动物、姬蛙科蛙类及哺乳动物（spotlighting）。