Vertebrate monitoring in the Australian Wet Tropics rainforest at CU4A1 (145.37450757, -16.53311127, 400.0m above MSL) collected by Reptile Surveys

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，科研团队便在澳大利亚湿热带雨林（Australian Wet Tropics）的永久性监测站点对雨林脊椎动物实施常态化监测。随着采样规模逐步扩大至整个湿热带区域，自1997年后的多个不同起始时间点起，研究人员已在斯佩普（Spec）、阿瑟顿（Atherton）、温莎（Windsor）、卡宾（Carbine）以及贝勒登克尔高地（Bellenden Ker Uplands）持续推进此类调查工作。本次系统调查涵盖的脊椎动物类群包括鸟类、爬行类、姬蛙科（Microhylidae）蛙类，以及采用聚光灯法（spotlighting）开展监测的哺乳类。