The TERN citizen science fauna monitoring pilot project aims to collect long-term monitoring data using the TERN standard monitoring protocol for birds. In May 2021, TERN launched a citizen science project designed to monitor bird biodiversity at the Samford Ecological Research Facility (SERF) in peri-urban Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, in collaboration with Queensland University of Technology and the Samford Eco-Corridor community group. Bird monitoring is undertaken quarterly by citizen scientists using TERN standardised monitoring protocols which are based on the Birds Australia systematic bird survey ‘2 ha 20 minute search’ method.

Knowledge on the spatial distribution and inter-specific association patterns in tree species is essential in plant ecology to understand ecological mechanisms and dynamic process operating in spatial distribution of a tree population in a plant community. We measured and compiled datasets on three tropical tree species from a moist semi deciduous forest. We used the software Programita to perform univariate and bivariate point pattern analysis by Ripley's L-function. These datasets can be used to inform on possibilities of interaction of these species in forest stands. These datasets can be also used to access the capacity of each tree of <i>Mansonia altissima</i> var. <i>altissima</i> A. Chev. to develop and grow or its exclusion probability within a plant community. <i>Mansonia altissima</i> A. Chev. is a plant species represented by only one-population in a moist semi-deciduous forest in Republic of Benin. Our project aims to understand its ecology for restoration and conservation purposes within its natural habitat as well as other habitats inside of its distribution range.

A collection of high-frequency echolocation calls of Australian bats.<br><br> It contains calls from previously available collections such as Pennay et al. (2004), Bat Calls of NSW and Milne (2002), Key to the bat calls of the top end of the Northern Territory, calls collected by members of the Australasian Bat Society during conferences and Bat Blitz's held in Tasmania, Queensland, Northern Territory and South Australia as well as those donated by individual bat researchers.<br><br> The collection also includes long-term monitoring (funded by TERN) at a number of Queensland sites: Cape Hillsborough National Park, Kings Plains, Fanning River, Fletcherview Research Station, Carnarvon Station Reserve and Bunya Mountains / Dalby.<br><br> This collection includes zc, wav, identified and unidentified calls, with call meta data such as location (GPS), call collector, call identifier (where relevant), how a call was identified etc noted in the metadata associated with each sound file.<br><br> Perhaps most significantly, this collection includes over 100,000 calls recorded by Chris Corben, many of which are identified to species. We thank him for his incredible generosity and contribution to bat work internationally. The earliest calls date to 1989, prior to Titley's involvement, and probably involved Chris with his laptop and an ultrasonic microphone plugged into it!

The dataset comprises data from the first survey of ~24,000 large trees (>10 cm diameter at breast height; DBH) within 48 1 ha forest monitoring plots established across Australia between 2011 and 2015. Data includes: [1] Site identifiers (ID and Site Name); [2] Plot Establishment Dates; [3] Tree identifiers and descriptors (ID, Species, Status, Growth Stage, Crown Class); [4] Tree measurements (Diameter, Point of Measurement, Height, Location, above-ground biomass); [5] Comments and ancillary information; and [6] List of Metagenomic Sample Identifiers.