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Open AccessFirst estimates of fine root production in tropical peat swamp and terra firme forests of the central Congo Basin
Tropical peatlands are carbon-dense ecosystems because they accumulate partially-decomposed plant material. A substantial fraction of this organic matter may derive from fine root production (FRP). However, fe...
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Open AccessPublisher Correction: Hydroclimatic vulnerability of peat carbon in the central Congo Basin
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Open AccessHydroclimatic vulnerability of peat carbon in the central Congo Basin
The forested swamps of the central Congo Basin store approximately 30 billion metric tonnes of carbon in peat1,2. Little is known about the vulnerability of these carbon stocks. Here we investigate this vulnerabi...
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Author Correction: Map** peat thickness and carbon stocks of the central Congo Basin using field data
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Map** peat thickness and carbon stocks of the central Congo Basin using field data
The world’s largest tropical peatland complex is found in the central Congo Basin. However, there is a lack of in situ measurements to understand the peatland’s distribution and the amount of carbon stored in ...
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Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests
Structurally intact tropical forests sequestered about half of the global terrestrial carbon uptake over the 1990s and early 2000s, removing about 15 per cent of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions1–3. Climate...
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Open AccessCongo Basin peatlands: threats and conservation priorities
The recent publication of the first spatially explicit map of peatlands in the Cuvette Centrale, central Congo Basin, reveals it to be the most extensive tropical peatland complex, at ca. 145,500 km2. With an est...
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Age, extent and carbon storage of the central Congo Basin peatland complex
Field measurements combined with remotely sensed data reveal the Cuvette Centrale in the central Congo Basin to contain the most extensive peatland complex in the tropics, increasing the best estimate of globa...
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Ecosystem Carbon Storage Across the Grassland–Forest Transition in the High Andes of Manu National Park, Peru
Improved management of carbon storage by terrestrial biomes has significant value for mitigating climate change. The carbon value of such management has the potential to provide additional income to rural comm...
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No Differences in Soil Carbon Stocks Across the Tree Line in the Peruvian Andes
Reliable soil organic carbon (SOC) stock measurements of all major ecosystems are essential for predicting the influence of global warming on global soil carbon pools, but hardly any detailed soil survey data ...
