Vertebrate monitoring in the Australian Wet Tropics rainforest at AU8A4 (145.63243376, -17.6029758, 800.0m 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，研究团队已在澳大利亚湿热带雨林（Australian Wet Tropics Rainforest）全域的永久监测站点中，对雨林脊椎动物开展监测工作。随着采样规模逐步拓展至整个湿热带雨林区域，科研人员于1997年后的多个不同起始时间，在斯派克（Spec）、阿瑟顿（Atherton）、温莎（Windsor）、卡宾（Carbine）以及贝伦登克尔高地（Bellenden Ker Uplands）持续开展此类调查工作。本次系统调查所覆盖的脊椎动物类群包括鸟类、爬行类、姬蛙科（Microhylidae）蛙类以及采用夜间灯光调查法监测的哺乳类。