Williams Wet Tropics Vertebrate database
<p>This database contains occurrence data for vertebrates across the Australian Wet Tropics. Species occurrence point data has been collected during field intensive surveys using a variety of sampling methods as well as from the literature and institutional databases. The records are divided into two tables: Misc_records and STD_records. The first contains records collated opportunistically, as well as records collected from literature. The latter is a collection of standardized surveys conducted by Steve E. Williams (JCU). </p>
<p> All occurrences were vetted for positional and taxonomic accuracy, and for sensitivity at the state and national levels. Sensitive species records are withheld or have their location generalised following sensitive species rules for processing these records. </p>
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2021-08-21
- Date (Publication)
- 2022-03-10
- Date (Revision)
- 2025-12-11
- Edition
- 1.0
Identifier
Publisher
Author
James Cook University - Williams, Stephen ()
1 James Cook Drive, Bebegu Yumba campus, 4811, Douglas, Australia
Bebegu Yumba campus
Douglas
4811
Australia
- Website
- https://www.tern.org.au/
- Purpose
- These data are collected to gain a deeper understanding of the distribution of vertebrate species across the Australian Wet Tropics. The data can be leveraged to gain a broader understanding of the realized and fundamental niche of vertebrates in this area, as well as their shifts under present and future environmental change.
- 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.
- Credit
- <p>This work was jointly funded by the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), an Australian Government National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) project, and the Queensland Government Research Infrastructure Co-investment Fund (RICF).<br> Major contributors to funding the data collection include Australian Research Council, CRC-Rainforest, Marine & Tropical Science Research Facility, Earthwatch Institute, James Cook University, National Environmental Research Facility, National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility, Queensland Government, Queensland Parks & Wildlife Service, Wet Tropics Management Authority & TERN. </p>
- Status
- On going
Point of contact
James Cook University - Williams, Stephen ()
1 James Cook Drive, Bebegu Yumba campus, 4811, Douglas, Australia
1 James Cook Drive
Bebegu Yumba campus
Douglas
4811
Australia
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Geoscientific information
Extent
- Description
- Sites across the Australian Wet Tropics bioregion.
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 1990-01-01
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- GCMD Science Keywords
- ANZSRC Fields of Research
- TERN Parameter Vocabulary
- QUDT Units of Measure
- GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
- GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
- Keywords (Discipline)
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- species occurence
- GNATHOSTOMATA
- VERTEBRATA
- AVES
- PISCES
- AMPHIBIA
- REPTILIA
- MAMMALIA
- MONOTREMATA
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/
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- 88x31.png
- File description
- CCBy Logo from creativecommons.org
- File type
- png
- Title
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
- Alternate title
- CC-BY
- Edition
- 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
- Supplemental Information
- <table style="height: 66px; width: 348.5px;"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width: 124px;"><span style="color: #000000;">Filename</span></td> <td style="width: 207.5px;"><span style="color: #000000;">Description</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 124px;"><span style="color: #000000;">STD_records</span></td> <td style="width: 207.5px;"><span style="color: #000000;">Records collected based on a variety of standardised sampling methods</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 124px;"><span style="color: #000000;">Misc_records.csv</span></td> <td style="width: 207.5px;">Records collected through data compilations</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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- NetCDF
Distributor
Distributor
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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- NetCDF
Distributor
Distributor
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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Distributor
Distributor
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
80 Meiers Road, Indooroopilly, Queensland, 4068, Australia
Indooroopilly
Queensland
4068
Australia
- OnLine resource
- Williams Wet tropics vertebrate database
- OnLine resource
- OGC Web Feature Service (Endpoint)
- OnLine resource
- ro-crate-metadata.json
Data quality info
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Other
- All occurrences were vetted for positional and taxonomic accuracy, and for sensitivity at the state and national levels. Sensitive species records are withheld or have their location generalised following state-level rules for processing these records. All records are individual animals except for species code CC Chowchilla (bird) where a single record if recorded as a Heard (reliability a 3) will actually be for a single-family group of 3-5 individuals.
Report
Result
- Statement
- After assessment 21 species were classified as sensitive, 6485 records from these 21 species were generalized to 10km.
Resource lineage
- Statement
- Data were collated on the vertebrate species present within 23 zones defined by Winter et at. 1984: (Winter, J. W., Bell, F. C., Pahl, L. I. and Atherton, R. G. (1984). The specific habitats of selected northeastern Australian rainforest mammals. Report to the World Wildlife Fund, Sydney, Australia.) from a wide range of sources, including published fauna surveys, ecological papers, published monographs on the Wet Tropics, unpublished internal reports from CSIRO, Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage, James Cook University, Wet Tropics Management Authority, records of the Queensland Museum, CSIRO records, records of amateur naturalist groups and the personal records of a number of professional biologists currently working in the Wet Tropics.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Title
- Vertebrates of the Wet Tropics rainforests of Australia: species distributions and biodiversity
- Website
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https://rainforest-crc.jcu.edu.au/publications/vertebrate_distributions_full.pdf
Method documentation
- Title
- Distributions and biodiversity of the terrestrial vertebrates of Australia's Wet Tropics: a review of current knowledge
- Website
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https://www.publish.csiro.au/pc/pdf/PC960327
Method documentation
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/EPSG:4326
- Reference system type
- Geodetic Geographic 2D
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/5eb7332c-b610-4549-b540-077415efaf89
- Title
- TERN GeoNetwork UUID
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/5eb7332c-b610-4549-b540-077415efaf89
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2021-08-21T00:00:00.000000+00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-12-11T22:53:10.878123+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
Overviews
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