Bird Survey Data, Far North Queensland Rainforest SuperSite, Daintree Rainforest Observatory, Cape Tribulation, 2014

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 3 points along a 400m site for which birds are surveyed. The dataset here represents the monitoring at ~50m asl at the James Cook University Daintree Rainforest Observatory (TERN FNQ Supersite, Cape Tribulation node) at which biannual avifauna surveys will be conducted by The College of Marine and Environmental Sciences (CMES) at James Cook University (JCU) has a Memorandum of Understanding between TERN FNQ Rainforest SuperSite.

为支撑针对生物多样性决定因素的各类比较研究，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种群丰度数据开展系统性监测。本数据集为单条监测样带（monitoring transect）的观测数据，采用标准化调查方法采集，用于评估脊椎动物的分布范围与种群丰度。该数据集隶属于一项大型监测项目，该项目覆盖湿热带（Wet Tropics）地区5个山脉的纬度与海拔梯度带。该监测样带以400米样地内的3个采样点为代表，用于开展鸟类调查。本数据集对应海拔约50米（above sea level, asl）的监测点位，设于詹姆斯库克大学（James Cook University, JCU）丹特里雨林观测站（TERN FNQ超级站点，TERN FNQ Supersite，苦难角节点，Cape Tribulation node）。该站点的鸟类区系调查（avifauna surveys）每半年开展一次，由詹姆斯库克大学海洋与环境科学学院（College of Marine and Environmental Sciences, CMES）负责执行，且该站点与TERN FNQ雨林超级站点（TERN FNQ Rainforest SuperSite）签署了谅解备忘录。