At the start of the SECO project , we had the idea that we would sample leaf traits across our field sites to help constrain models of carbon cycle processes. I wrote a protocol with a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh, Matt Rees, with guidance on how to collect leaves from a representative sample of trees at each site, with the aim of calculating realistic community-weighted means of the leaf trait values that would be useful to the modelling team.
In the end, this protocol was only rolled out at a couple of sites in southern Africa, as the project went in a different direction quite early on.
I’m going to host the protocol here so anybody can use it.