AfriTRON: African Tropical Rainforest Observation Network

Collecting water near CAP-09, Cape Three Points Forest Reserve, a rare area of unlogged wet forest, coastal Ghana.



Drinking water near DJA-07, in the Dja, a UNESCO World Heritage Reserve, Eastern Cameroon.



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Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)

Earth and Biosphere Institute

School of Geography @ University of Leeds

University of Leeds
Funding
AfriTRON runs on a shoe-string. We could provide many more answers to many more pressing questions if we had more funding. If you want to talk about possibly of funding African-focussed science then please email Simon Lewis. We are keen to discuss new funding modes, such as adopting plots to fund regular monitoring.

We are very grateful to the following funding agencies for their support of AfriTRON:

  • The Royal Society, University Research Fellowship to Simon Lewis.
  • Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) New Investigators Award to Simon Lewis (NE/D000300/1).
  • Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Standard Grant to Simon Lewis, Oliver Phillips, Yadvinder Malhi.
  • Environment Trust Award to Simon Lewis.

The Faculty of Environment (University of Leeds) Environmental Knowledge Transfer Fund financed the construction of this website.

We thank the following institutions for contributing to the initiation and remeasurment of the forest plots in Afritron: University of Leeds (UK), University of Yaounde (Cameroon), Forestry Commission of Ghana, University of Agriculture (Nigeria), Bureau Waardenburg bv (The Netherlands), Institute for Tropical Ecological Research (IRET, Gabon), Smithsonian Institution (US), Wageningen University (The Netherlands), Plantlife International (UK), Wildlife Conservation Society-Democratic Republic of Congo, National Museum of France, University of York (UK), University of Dar es Salaam, Centre for International Forestry Research (Indonesia), University of Aberdeen (UK), University of Dublin (Republic of Ireland), University of Toronto (Canada), Mbarara University (Uganda), and Forest Development Authority (Liberia).