Williams Wet Tropics Vertebrate database

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).

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.

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).
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.