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Crezee, Bart https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1459-6402
Bola, Pierre
Emba, Ovide
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Hawthorne, Donna
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Louvouandou, Lisa F
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Milongo, Brice
Kibongui, Gloire J
Schefuβ, Enno https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5960-930X
Garcin, Yannick https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8205-494X
Bocko, Yannick E
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Kiahtipes, Chris https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8758-4605
Mitchard, Edward https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5690-4055
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Sjögersten, Sofie
Schneider, Ralph R https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1453-9181
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Funding for this research was provided by:
NERC Doctoral Training Partnership award (NE/L002574/1)
NERC CASE award
Global Challenges Research Fund
Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-19-CE01-0022)
NERC Radiocarbon Facility (NRCF010001)
DFG-Cluster of Excellence ‘The Ocean in the Earth System’
Greenpeace Fund award
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SCHE903/19-1)
Natural Environment Research Council (NE/R016860/1)
Article Title: Timing of peat initiation across the central Congo Basin
Journal Title: Environmental Research Letters
Article Type: paper
Copyright Information: © 2025 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd
Publication dates
Date Received: 2025-03-24
Date Accepted: 2025-06-27
Online publication date: 2025-07-29