Vertebrate monitoring in the Australian Wet Tropics rainforest at AU1A4 (145.85707544, -17.72014637, 100.0m 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）的永久性监测点位对雨林脊椎动物开展常态化监测。随着采样规模逐步拓展至覆盖整个湿热带雨林区域，自1997年后的多个起始节点起，研究人员持续在斯佩普（Spec）、阿瑟顿（Atherton）、温莎（Windsor）、卡宾（Carbine）及贝伦登克尔高地（Bellenden Ker Uplands）推进此类调查。本次系统调研涵盖的脊椎动物类群包括鸟类、爬行类、姬蛙科（Microhylidae）蛙类，以及采用聚光灯监测法（spotlighting）的哺乳类。