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Daintree Rainforest, Cape Tribulation Bird Occurrence Data

This dataset contains bird occurrence data collected at the Daintree Rainforest, Cape Tribulation site in 2014.

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2014-10-23
Date (Publication)
2024-05-04
Date (Revision)
2025-12-10
Edition
1.0

Publisher

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
+61 7 3365 9097

Author

Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science, James Cook University - Williams, Stephen ()
14-88 McGregor Road, Smithfield, 4878, Queensland, Australia
Smithfield
Queensland
4878
Australia

Co-author

Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science, James Cook University - Roslan, Nadiah (Research Assistant)
14-88 McGregor Road, Smithfield, 4878, Queensland, Australia
Smithfield
Queensland
4878
Australia
Website
https://www.tern.org.au/

Purpose
Bird surveys were conducted to to provide a description of the bird community, including its richness and composition, and having established a baseline description to monitor the dynamics and phenology of the community over time.
Credit
We at TERN acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians throughout Australia, New Zealand and all nations. We honour their profound connections to land, water, biodiversity and culture and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.
Status
On going

Point of contact

Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science, James Cook University - Williams, Stephen ()
14-88 McGregor Road, Smithfield, 4878, Queensland, Australia
14-88 McGregor Road
Smithfield
Queensland
4878
Australia
Topic category
  • Biota
  • Environment

Extent

Description
The Daintree Rainforest, Cape Tribulation site is located about 120 km north of Cairns, Queensland. Vegetation within the site is classified as Complex Mesophyll Vine Forest (CMVF).
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Temporal extent

Time period
2014-10-23
Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned
GCMD Science Keywords
  • BIRDS
  • LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY
  • ANIMAL ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR
  • COMMUNITY DYNAMICS
  • COMMUNITY STRUCTURE
ANZSRC Fields of Research
  • Community ecology (excl. invasive species ecology)
  • Ecology
  • Population ecology
TERN Platform Vocabulary
  • Daintree Rainforest, Cape Tribulation
TERN Parameter Vocabulary
  • animal count
  • Number
QUDT Units of Measure
  • Number
GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
  • 500 meters - < 1 km
GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
  • Annual
Keywords (Discipline)
  • Birds
  • FNQ Rainforest
  • Far North Queensland
  • Species Richness
  • Wet Tropics
  • Cape Tribulation

Resource constraints

Use limitation
The Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license allows others to copy, distribute, display, and create derivative works provided that they credit the original source and any other nominated parties. Details are provided at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
File name
88x31.png
File description
CCBy Logo from creativecommons.org
File type
png
Linkage
https://w3id.org/tern/static/cc-by/88x31.png

Title
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
Alternate title
CC-BY
Edition
4.0
Website
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Access constraints
License
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
TERN services are provided on an "as-is" and "as available" basis. Users use any TERN services at their discretion and risk. They will be solely responsible for any damage or loss whatsoever that results from such use including use of any data obtained through TERN and any analysis performed using the TERN infrastructure. <br />Web links to and from external, third party websites should not be construed as implying any relationships with and/or endorsement of the external site or its content by TERN. <br /><br />Please advise any work or publications that use this data via the online form at https://www.tern.org.au/research-publications/#reporting
Other constraints
Please cite this dataset as {Author} ({PublicationYear}). {Title}. {Version, as appropriate}. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. Dataset. {Identifier}.

Resource constraints

Classification
Unclassified

Distribution Information

Distribution format
  • NetCDF

Distributor

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
OnLine resource
Cape_Tribulation_bird_occurrence_data_dictionary

Distribution Information

Distribution format
  • NetCDF

Distributor

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
OnLine resource
Cape_Tribulation_bird_occurrence_data

Distribution Information

Distribution format

Distributor

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd, Indooroopilly, QLD, Australia, 4068
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
OnLine resource
ro-crate-metadata.json

Resource lineage

Statement
Bird surveys at the Daintree Rainforest, Cape Tribulation site were conducted in 2014. Bird surveys were carried out at for 30 minutes at each of the three sampling points along a 400m transect. At each point on the transect, all individual birds either seen or heard were recorded. If it is believed the bird calling is the same bird seen or heard 10 minutes into the survey it was not re-recorded.
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
EPSG/EPSG:4326

Reference system type
Geodetic Geographic 2D

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/0b9559e2-ea9f-4766-a5f3-71eed5ae5f86

Title
TERN GeoNetwork UUID

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Point of contact

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
+61 7 3365 9097

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Metadata linkage
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/0b9559e2-ea9f-4766-a5f3-71eed5ae5f86

Point-of-truth metadata URL

Date info (Creation)
2023-01-30T00:00:00.000000+00:00
Date info (Revision)
2025-12-10T10:19:32.778103+00:00

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115-1:2014/AMD 1:2018 Geographic information - Metadata - Fundamentals
Edition
1

Metadata standard

Title
ISO/TS 19115-3:2016
Edition
1.0

Metadata standard

Title
ISO/TS 19157-2:2016
Edition
1.0
Title
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-3:2016 and ISO 19157-2:2016
Date (published)
2021
Edition
1.0

Identifier

Code
10.5281/zenodo.5652221
Website
https://github.com/ternaustralia/TERN-ISO19115/releases/tag/v1.0

 
 

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Spatial extent

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Keywords

ANZSRC Fields of Research
Community ecology (excl. invasive species ecology) Ecology Population ecology
GCMD Science Keywords
ANIMAL ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR BIRDS COMMUNITY DYNAMICS COMMUNITY STRUCTURE LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

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