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.

澳大利亚热带雨林脊椎动物的分布与丰度监测工作，可为多项围绕生物多样性决定因素展开的比较研究提供依据，同时可用于评估全球气候变化的影响。本数据集对应一处标准化调查监测样带（monitoring transect），采用统一规范的调查方法采集数据，用以评估脊椎动物的分布与丰度情况。该数据集隶属于一项覆盖湿热带地区5座山脉、横穿纬度与海拔梯度的大型监测项目。一处监测样带沿1公里样地设置6个采样点位，针对两栖类、爬行类、鸟类与哺乳类开展系统性调查。本数据集对应兰岭高地伊迪丝山海拔700米处的监测结果。