Vertebrate Fauna Biodiversity Monitoring, Far North Queensland Rainforest SuperSite, CTBCC, 2009-2011

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 6 points
along a 1 km site for which amphibians, reptiles, birds and
mammals are surveyed. The dataset here represents the monitoring
at 1100 m asl on Mt Edith in the Lamb Range Uplands.

为支撑围绕生物多样性决定因素开展的各类比较研究，并评估全球气候变化所带来的影响，需对澳大利亚热带雨林脊椎动物的分布与丰度数据开展系统性监测。本数据集对应一条独立的监测样带，通过标准化调查方法采集相关数据，以评估该区域脊椎动物的分布与丰度状况。该数据集隶属于一项覆盖湿热带地区（Wet Tropics）内5座山脉纬度与海拔梯度的大型监测计划。每条监测样带沿1公里样地布设6个采样点位，针对两栖类、爬行类、鸟类与哺乳类开展调查。本数据集对应兰姆高地（Lamb Range Uplands）伊迪斯山（Mt Edith）海拔1100米处的监测工作。