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.为开展一系列关于生物多样性决定因素的比较研究，并评估全球气候变化的影响，需对澳大利亚热带雨林脊椎动物的分布与种群丰度数据进行监测。本数据集对应一处监测样带（transect），采用标准化调查方法采集数据，以评估脊椎动物的分布与种群丰度。该数据集隶属于一项大型监测项目，该项目在湿热带（Wet Tropics）地区的5座山脉间布设了覆盖纬度与海拔梯度的监测样带。一处监测样带在400米样地内设置3个监测点位，用于开展鸟类调查。本数据集对应詹姆斯·库克大学（James Cook University, JCU）丹特里雨林观测站（TERN FNQ超级站点，苦难角节点）内海拔约50米处的监测工作，该站点将由詹姆斯·库克大学海洋与环境科学学院（CMES）每半年开展一次鸟类区系调查，且该站点与TERN FNQ雨林超级站点签订了谅解备忘录。