Rainforest Vertebrate Fauna (Locations & Abundances) of the Australian Wet Tropics, CTBCC, Far North Queensland Rainforest SuperSite, 1994-2020

Brief description

Contextual data for the FNQ Rainforest Supersite. Distributional data for the rain forest vertebrates of the AWT was collected during field intensive surveys and collated from the literature and institutional databases (as per Williams 2006). Major sources of species occurrences included: field intensive surveys by various researchers in the School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, from which the data is now maintained and continued monitoring standard survey sites is done by the Centre for Tropical Biodiversity and Climate Change, James Cook University; Birds Australia Atlas of Australian Birds; QPWS Wildnet fauna database; and individual biologists (see special reference section of Williams et al. 1996). All occurrences were vetted for positional and taxonomic accuracy prior to use in modelling. (https://research.jcu.edu.au/researchdata/default/detail/2191af28cae2be65371fef4531cf2d7f/) This research has been funded in full or part by the funding agencies: - Skyrail Rainforest Foundation - Birds Australia - Earthwatch Institute - Marine and Tropical Sciences Research Facility (MTSRF) - National Environmental Research Program (NERP) - Rainforest CRC - Australian Research Council - James Cook University Research Advancement Program (RAP) - Wet Tropics Management Authority (WTMA) - National Geographic - National Science Foundation - Queensland Smart State Program