Publication: Environmental and climatic evolution of a river-proximal peatland in the Cuvette Centrale, Congo Basin

Tropical peatlands play a crucial role in the global carbon cycle, but their formation and response to environmental change remain poorly understood. The Congo Basin, where the world’s largest tropical peatlands are located, contains around 30 billion tons of carbon in the Cuvette Centrale. Initial studies revealed diverse peat deposits in different geomorphologic and hydrologic settings, with extensive peat domes in interfluvial basins and fluvial peatlands following hydrographic networks. Here we present a comprehensive analysis of a peat core from a peatland in the immediate vicinity of the Momboyo River in the Cuvette Centrale. (abridged from the publisher’s website)