Amazon Forest Inventory Network

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About RAINFOR

The Amazon Forest Inventory Network is an international collaboration to understand the dynamics of Amazon ecosystems. Since the year 2000 we have established a systematic framework for long-term monitoring of this region, which holds more biodiversity, water, and carbon than any other forest on Earth.

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Manuals

The RAINFOR consortium have published the following manuals:

  • RAINFOR ethical, data and publication policy
  • Fieldwork manuals
  • Monitoring carbon processes in permanent plots
  • Supporting sustainable use of forest resources: Integrated assessment of forest biodiversity and community use
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Publications

Welcome to the RAINFOR Website

The Amazon Forest Inventory Network is an international collaboration to understand the dynamics of Amazon ecosystems. Since the year 2000 we have established a systematic framework for long-term monitoring of this region, which holds more biodiversity, water, and carbon than any other forest on Earth. This framework is based around long-term forest inventory plots, but also includes extensive collection of soil and plant biogeochemical data, and more intensive and high frequency monitoring of a subset of sites.RAINFOR works with partners across the nations of Amazonia, taking account of the modulating role of environmental variables like soil nutrition, and the need to help develop a new generation of Amazon ecologists. RAINFOR is currently supported by the Andes and Amazon Initiative of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, as well as by funding agencies in the UK (NERC: the AMAZONICA consortium), the EU, and South America.

 

puesta del sol, Rio Amazonas, Iquitos (photo: Oliver Phillips 2006) Madre de Dios, Perú - Ruizodendron ovale (photo: Abel Monteagudo 2011) Medicion de arbol grande, Caixiuana, Brasil (photo: Tim Baker 2002) Yanachaga, Perú (photo: Abel Monteagudo)