After breakfast Morgan introduced us to the TEAM Network protocols as well as the TEAM education portal. We hiked into the old-growth forest to learn the protocol used by TEAM scientists to collect vegetation data (biodiversity index, carbon storage in above ground biomass, etc.) Joanna is in charge of the TEAM Volcan Barva site which includes parts of La Selva. She showed us how they use many random 1-hectare plots with 10-m transects to collect their vegetation data. The diameter of trees and lianas, species information, and tree density can be plugged into a formula in order to find changes in above ground biomass over time and indirectly measure carbon sequestration.
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