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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

Title
DataCite
Code
doi:10.25901/qqww-cz15
Codespace
http://dx.doi.org

Publisher

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

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
  • Biota
  • Geoscientific information

Extent

Description
Sites across the Australian Wet Tropics bioregion.
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S
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Temporal extent

Time period
1990-01-01
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
GCMD Science Keywords
  • ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES
  • MAMMALS
  • BIRDS
  • AMPHIBIANS
  • FROGS/TOADS
  • FISH
  • REPTILES
  • ANIMAL ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR
ANZSRC Fields of Research
  • Forest biodiversity
  • Biogeography and phylogeography
TERN Parameter Vocabulary
  • animal occurrence
  • Degree
  • field species name
  • Unitless
  • scientific name
  • Unitless
QUDT Units of Measure
  • Degree
  • Unitless
  • Unitless
GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
  • 100 km - < 250 km or approximately 1 degree - < 2.5 degrees
GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
  • Monthly - < Annual
Keywords (Discipline)
  • 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/
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
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
  • NetCDF

Distributor

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
OnLine resource
/attachment/5eb7332c-b610-4549-b540-077415efaf89/STD_records_status_taxonomy_202112171056.csv

Distribution Information

Distribution format
  • NetCDF

Distributor

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
OnLine resource
/attachment/5eb7332c-b610-4549-b540-077415efaf89/Misc_records_status_taxonomy_202112171056.csv

Distribution Information

Distribution format

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
Landscape Data Visualiser - Williams Wet Tropics Vertebrate database

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
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
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
urn:uuid/5eb7332c-b610-4549-b540-077415efaf89

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/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

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
Biogeography and phylogeography Forest biodiversity
GCMD Science Keywords
AMPHIBIANS ANIMAL ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES BIRDS FISH FROGS/TOADS MAMMALS REPTILES

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