Vertebrate Fauna Biodiversity Monitoring, Far North Queensland Rainforest SuperSite, CTBCC, LU7A, 2009-2011

Monitoring of distributional and abundance data for Australian tropical rainforest vertebrates is required to inform a wide range of comparative studies on the determinants of biodiversity and assess the impacts of global climate change. The data set here serves as a single monitoring transect for which data was collected using standardised survey techniques to assess distribution and abundance of vertebrates. It is part of a larger monitoring project that bisects latitudinal and elevational gradients across 5 mountain ranges in the Wet Tropics region. A monitory transect is represented by 6 points along a 1 km site for which amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals are surveyed. The dataset here represents the monitoring at 700 m asl on Mt Edith in the Lamb Range Uplands.

为支撑围绕生物多样性决定因素开展的各类比较研究，并评估全球气候变化的影响，亟需对澳大利亚热带雨林脊椎动物的分布与丰度数据开展监测。本数据集为单条监测样带的调查数据，采用标准化调查方法采集，用于评估脊椎动物的分布与丰度状况。该数据集隶属于一项大型监测项目，该项目横穿澳大利亚湿热带（Wet Tropics）地区5座山脉的纬度与海拔梯度带。每条监测样带由沿1公里样地布设的6个采样点组成，针对两栖类、爬行类、鸟类及哺乳类开展调查。本数据集对应兰姆山脉高地（Lamb Range Uplands）伊迪丝山（Mt Edith）海拔700米（asl）处的监测工作。