Vertebrate monitoring in the Australian Wet Tropics rainforest at AU4A3 (145.76788616, -17.60834065, 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，科研团队已在澳大利亚湿热带雨林（Australian Wet Tropics）全域的永久性监测站点对雨林脊椎动物开展监测工作。随着采样规模逐步扩展至整个湿热带雨林区域，自1997年后的多个不同起始日期起，研究人员已在斯佩普（Spec）、阿瑟顿（Atherton）、温莎（Windsor）、卡宾（Carbine）与贝伦登克尔高地（Bellenden Ker Uplands）持续开展此类调查。系统调查涵盖的脊椎动物类群包括鸟类、爬行类、细趾蟾科蛙类（microhylid frogs）以及采用夜间聚光灯法监测的哺乳类。