Five 0.6 ha (100 m x 60 m) plots in native montane forest stands and one in Pinus taeda plantation were established in Parque Estadual de Campos do Jordao in 2003. The protocols followed the GEM manual (Marthews et al. 2014), with modifications. The measures of the plots are on ground measures and are not corrected for slope. Slope measurements were made posterior to calculate projected plot area. All trees were, enumerated, tagged and their DBH (> 10 cm) measured; trees with a DBH >5cm and > 10 cm were measured in two sublots (20 m x 20 m) per plot.

Reference
Marthews TR, Riutta T, Oliveras Menor I, Urrutia R, Moore S, Metcalfe D, Malhi Y, Phillips O, Huaraca Huasco W, Ruiz Jaén M, Girardin C, Butt N, Cain R and colleagues from the RAINFOR and GEM networks (2014). Measuring Tropical Forest Carbon Allocation and Cycling: A RAINFOR-GEM Field Manual for Intensive Census Plots (v3.0). Manual, Global Ecosystems Monitoring network, http://gem.tropicalforests.ox.ac.uk/