RAINFOR GEM Intensive Plots Manual (pdf) - University of Oxford

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSThe research behind RAINFOR-GEM has been supported by the Natural Environment Research Council(NERC) of the UK, Microsoft Research, Oxford University John Fell Fund, the Gordon and Berry MooreFoundation, the ERC Africa GHG project and the SAFE project. Huge thanks to the hundreds of field personnelwho tag and measure tree stems across the RAINFOR-GEM network of plots: no subsequent analyses orconclusions about tropical forest structure, dynamics and cycling would be possible without your efforts.REFERENCESBaker TR & Chao KJ (2011). Manual for coarse woody debris measurement in RAINFOR plots. Manual. 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