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TEAM Protocols

TEAM operates in 17 tropical forest sites across Africa, Asia and Latin America. A network of scientists use standardized methods of data collection to quantify how plants and animals respond to pressures such as climate change and human encroachment. In addition to recording baseline climate and carbon data, TEAM operates the world’s largest camera trap array, collecting over three million images to date. Additional photographs are available in the archive.

Badru Mugerwa prepares to set camera traps from a field camp near Harushasha, outside Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. Badru and his fellow TEAM scientists have gathered millions of images of mammals and birds to help guide conservation efforts.
Badru Mugerwa checks each camera's range before leaving it for 30 days, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda.
Job Nahabwe and Badru Mugerwa arm a camera trap in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. Badru and his team set 60 camera traps each year.
Moses Kapalata and Aventino Nkwasibwe cut their way towards a camera trap location in array two, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda.
The Bwindi camera trapping team. L-R: Aventino Nkwasibwe, Moses Kapalata, Badru Mugerwa, Lawrence Tumugabirwe and Job Nahabwe.
Badru Mugerwa downloads images into DeskTEAM software for analysis, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda.
A technician selects the next camera location in an array in Udzungwa Mountains National Park, Tanzania.
A camera can be triggered day and night by passing animals or birds, Udzungwa Mountains National Park, Tanzania.
Patricia Alvarez and Ingrid Serrano Zubileta travel two days by boat to reach the Cocha Cashu field station in Manú National Park, Peru.
Patricia Alvarez and Ingrid Serrano Zubileta make measurments in a vegetation plot, Manú National Park, Peru. The vegetation protocol, followed by Patricia and her fellow TEAM scientists, generates data that is used to calculate biomass and carbon stocks at a global scale. (Composite image.)
Patricia Alvarez and Ingrid Serrano Zubileta measure stems in a vegetation plot in Manú National Park, Peru.
Patricia Alvarez measures the diameter of a stem in Manú National Park, Peru. She measures almost 4000 trees and lianas annually.
Patricia Alvarez, Ingrid Serrano Zubileta and José Chinoa Raimondi work in a vegetation plot in Manú National Park, Peru.
Badru Mugerwa measures the diameter of a tree in Vegetation Plot Five, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda.
Badru Mugerwa measures the diameter of a tree in Vegetation Plot Five, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda.
The forest canopy in Manú National Park, Peru.
The TEAM climate tower in Pasoh Forest Reserve, Malaysia. TEAM's climate protocol measures temperature, humidity, rainfall and solar radiation to help researchers understand the effects of climate change on biodiversity.
TEAM technicians hike through the forest to the climate station in Pasoh Forest Reserve, Malaysia.
Christine Fletcher checks a UV sensor on the climate tower in Pasoh Forest Reserve, Malaysia.
Christine and Zhafri download data at the top of the climate tower in Pasoh Forest Reserve, Malaysia.
Badru Mugerwa performs maintenance on the climate station in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda.
Badru Mugerwa downloads data from the climate station at the end of each month, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda.
Patricia Alvarez cleans the weather station at Pakitza, Manú National Park, Peru.
Patricia Alvarez enters data at the Cocha Cashu field station in Manú National Park, Peru. The data TEAM collects provides an early warning system for loss of biodiversity in tropical forests.
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