Vertebrate monitoring in the Australian Wet Tropics rainforest at CU4A5 (145.36779612, -16.53576091, 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，科研人员已在澳大利亚湿热带雨林（Australian Wet Tropics）的永久性监测点位对雨林脊椎动物开展监测。随着采样范围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时间起，研究团队已在斯派克（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、姬蛙类（microhylid frogs）以及采用夜间聚光灯监测法（spotlighting）的哺乳类。