Brief description
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.Data time period: 2009 to 2012
text: The site (LU11A) is located at 1100 m in elevation and consists of a 1 km long transect going up along the Mt Edith Road. There are six individual sampling points, located at every 200 m interval along this transect, (LU11A1, LU11A2, LU11A3, LU11A4, LU11A5 and LU11A6), which are flagged and marked with reflectors for easier detection. GPS Coordinates: LU11A1 - S 17°05’32.5” E 145°37’07.8”; LU11A2 - S 17°05’29.9” E 145°37’13.3”; LU11A3 - S 17°05’28.6” E 145°37’16.2”; LU11A4 - S 17°05’24.1” E 145°37’23.7”; LU11A5 - S 17°05’18.7” E 145°37’26.6”; LU11A6 - S 17°05’15.4” E 145°37’24.1”.
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