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 700 m asl on Mt Edith in the Lamb Range Uplands.Data time period: 2009 to 2012
text: The site (LU7A) is located at 700 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, (LU7A1, LU7A2, LU7A3, LU7A4, LU7A5 and LU7A6), which are flagged and marked with reflectors for easier detection. GPS Coordinates: LU7A1 - S 17°07’26.4” E 145°37’46.1”; LU7A2 - S 17°07’19.2” E 145°37’46.8”; LU7A3 - S 17°07’13.3” E 145°37’45.9”; LU7A4 - S 17°07’06.5” E 145°37’46.5”; LU7A5 - S 17°06’59.7” E 145°38’07.0”; LU7A6 - S 17°06’55.6” E 145°38’07.0”.
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