Age, extent and carbon storage of the central Congo Basin peatland complex
Radiocarbon dates indicate that peat began accumulating from about 10,600 years ago, coincident with the onset of more humid conditions in central Africa at the beginning of the Holocene, making the Cuvette Centrale depression in the central Congo Basin the most extensive peatland complex in the tropics.
Humid tropical forest disturbance alerts using Landsat data
- M. Hansen, A. Krylov, Rebecca Moore
- Environmental Science
- 2 March 2016
A Landsat-based humid tropical forest disturbance alert was implemented for Peru, the Republic of Congo and Kalimantan, Indonesia. Alerts were mapped on a weekly basis as new terrain-corrected…
Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests
- W. Hubau, S. Lewis, L. Zemagho
- Environmental ScienceNature
- 1 March 2020
Overall, the uptake of carbon into Earth’s intact tropical forests peaked in the 1990s and independent observations indicating greater recent carbon uptake into the Northern Hemisphere landmass reinforce the conclusion that the intact tropical forest carbon sink has already peaked.
Soil carbon balance in a clonal Eucalyptus plantation in Congo: effects of logging on carbon inputs and soil CO2 efflux
- D. Epron, Y. Nouvellon, O. Hamel
- Environmental Science
- 1 June 2006
Soil CO2 efflux was measured in clear‐cut and intact plots in order to quantify the impact of harvest on soil respiration in an intensively managed Eucalyptus plantation, and to evaluate the increase…
Pharmaceutical pollution of the world’s rivers
- J. Wilkinson, A. Boxall, C. Teta
- Environmental ScienceProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 14 February 2022
Significance Despite growing evidence of the deleterious effects on ecological and human health, little is known regarding the global occurrence of pharmaceuticals in rivers. Studies assessing their…
Tree Species Diversity, Richness, and Similarity in Intact and Degraded Forest in the Tropical Rainforest of the Congo Basin: Case of the Forest of Likouala in the Republic of Congo
- S. Ifo, J. Moutsamboté, Loumeto Jean Joel
- Environmental Science
- 8 August 2016
The results obtained revealed high biodiversity of trees of the forest of Impfondo-Dongou, which can provide baseline information for conservation of the biodiversity of the tropical forest in this area.
Evaluating the Carbon Stock in Above-and Below-Ground Biomass in a Moist Central African Forest
- Romeo Ekoungoulou, Shukui Niu, Xiao-dong Liu
- Environmental Science
- 5 May 2015
The study aimed to estimate the carbon stocks of above-and below-ground biomass in Lesio-louna forest (Republic of Congo). The methodology of allometric equations was used to measure the carbon…
Congo Basin peatlands: threats and conservation priorities
- G. Dargie, I. Lawson, S. Lewis
- Environmental ScienceMitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global…
- 15 April 2019
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…
Deforestation and forest degradation in the Congo Basin: State of knowledge, current causes and perspectives
- B. Tchatchou, D. Sonwa, S. Ifo, A. Tiani
- Environmental Science
- 2015
The Congo Basin comprises Cameroon, Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. It covers close to 70% of the forestlands of…
Evaluation of carbon stocks in above- and below-ground biomass in Central Africa: case study of Lesio-louna tropical rainforest of Congo
- Xiao-dong Liu, Romeo Ekoungoulou, J. Loumeto, S. Ifo, Y. Bocko, F. E. Koula
- Environmental Science
- 11 July 2014
Abstract. The study was aimed to estimate the carbon stocks of above- and below-ground biomass in Lesio-louna forest of Congo. The methodology of allometric equations was used to measure the carbon…
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