T-Forces follows internationally standardised protocols and methodologies established by sister network RAINFOR. These can be all be downloaded:
Fieldwork manuals
Plot establishment and remeasurement - revised 2021
Field sheet template for new plots (printable) - Metadata/Trees/Liana - revised 2016
Field codes - Trees - revised 2021
Field codes - Lianas - revised 2014
Intensive soil sampling protocol
Soil and Foliar sampling ES version only
Coarse woody debris protocol- version 2011
Monitoring carbon processes in permanent plots
Carbon monitoring manual (available only in Spanish)
Measuring tropical forest carbon allocation and cycling: RAINFOR-GEM Field Manual for Intensive Census Plots:- updated version May 2012
Respiration equations exercises