The AfriTRON consortium follows internationally standardised protocols and methodologies established by sister network RAINFOR. These can be all be downloaded:

Ethical, data and publication policy

Ethical code, data sharing and publication policy

Fieldwork manuals

Plot establishment and remeasurement - revised 2021

Field sheet template for new plots (printable) - Metadata/Trees/Liana - revised 2016

Field code sheets: Trees - revised 2021

Field code sheets: Trees French - revised 2021

Field code sheets: Lianas - revised 2014

Field code sheets: Lianas French - revised 2014

Liana and Canopy Index - revised 2018

Mode of death

Tree height

Wood density

Coarse woody debris protocol- version 2011

Intensive soil sampling protocol

Soil and Foliar sampling

Roots

Leaves

Intensive Carbon Monitoring

Measuring tropical forest carbon allocation and cycling: RAINFOR-GEM Field Manual for Intensive Census Plots:- updated version May 2012