Vertebrate Fauna Biodiversity Monitoring, Far North Queensland Rainforest SuperSite, Robson Creek, CTBCC, 2012

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 700 m, 900 m and 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，以及评估全球气候变化所产生的影响，亟需对澳大利亚热带雨林脊椎动物的分布与种群丰度数据开展监测。本数据集对应一处标准化监测样带，采用标准化调查方法采集数据，以评估脊椎动物的分布情况与种群丰度。该数据集隶属于一项在澳大利亚湿热带地区5座山脉中沿纬度与海拔梯度布设的大型监测项目。一处监测样带在1千米的样地内设置6个采样点，对两栖类、爬行类、鸟类与哺乳类开展调查。本数据集对应兰岭高地伊迪丝山上海拔700米、900米与1100米处的监测数据。