Data
Marking out trees in the terra firme plot, Ekolongouma Credit: Walter Huaraca Huasco
Please cite the relevant papers if you are using the data.
The data that supports the findings of the CongoPeat research programme is available as follows:
2025
Davenport, I., & McNicol, I. 2025. UAV LiDAR data, Epena and Ekolongouma, Republic of Congo, 2019. [Data set]. Zenodo.
Jenkins, S.J., Mitchard, E.T.A., Honorio Coronado, E.N., Page, S.E., Emba Botuli, O., Crezee, B., Ifo, S.A., Dargie, G.C., Ewango, C.E.N., Bokungu, E., Lewis, S.L. 2025. Low, but gradually growing deforestation and carbon emissions from the Cuvette Centrale peatlands, 2001-2021. Environmental Research Letters, 20(104050).
- Code availability
In this research, we analysed the publicly available GFC tree cover loss layer in QGIS. To produce the raster layers of decadal tree cover loss patches in the Cuvette Centrale peatlands in the DRC, we used GoogleEarth Engine. This code is available here: https://code.earthengine.google.com/cfba2e89839a2cdc2e2412db1675e73e.
Young, D., Baird, A. & Morris, P. 2025. DigiBog_Congo (Royal Society meeting on African Tropical peatlands). [Data set]. Zenodo.
2023
Bocko, Y.E., Loubota Panzou, G.J., Dargie, G.C., Wenina Mampouya, Y.E., Mbemba, M., Loumeto, J.J., Lewis, S.L. 2023. Allometric equation for Raphia laurentii De Wild, the commonest palm in the Central Congo Peatlands. PLOS ONE (in press).
- Aboveground biomass
Metadata – aboveground biomass - Palm frond measurements
Metadata – palm frond measurements - Stem measurements
Metadata – stem measurements - Tissue density and dry mass fresh mass ratios
Metadata – tissue density and dry mass fresh mass ratios
Georgiou, S., Mitchard, E.T.A., Crezee, B., Dargie, G.C., Young, D.M., Jovani-Sancho, A.J., Kitambo, B., Papa, F., Bocko, Y.E., Bola, P., Crabtree, D.E., Emba, O.B., Ewango, C.E.N., Girkin, N.T., Ifo, S.A., Kanyama, J.T., Wenina Mampouya, Y.E., Mbemba, M., Ndjango, J-B.N., Palmer, P.I., Sjögersten, S. & Lewis. S.L. 2023. Mapping water levels across a region of the Cuvette Centrale peatland complex. Remote Sensing 15(12):3099.
- Inundation mapping code: https://github.com/SelenaGeo/InundationMapping/
- Monthly water level data: https://zenodo.org/records/8040533
Young, D.M., Baird, A.J., Morris, P.J., Dargie, G.C., Wenina, Y.E.M., Mbemba, M., Boom, A., Cook, P., Betts, R., Burke, E., Bocko, Y.E., Chadburn, S., Crabtree, D.E., Crezee, B., Ewango, C.E.N., Garcin, Y., Georgiou, S., Girkin, N.T., Gulliver, P., Hawthorne, D., Ifo, S.A., Lawson, I.T., Page, S.E., Jovani-Sancho, A.J., Schefuss, E., Sciumbata, M., Sjögersten, S., Lewis, S.L. 2023. Simulating carbon accumulation and loss in the central Congo peatlands. Global Change Biology, 29, 6812-627.
- Model code and input files available from: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8363948
2022
Crezee, B., Dargie, G.C., Ewango, C.E.N., Mitchard, E.T.A., Emba, O.B., Kanyama, J.T., Bola, P., Ndjango, J.N., Girkin, N.T., Bocko, Y.E., Ifo, S.A., Hubau, W., Seidensticker, D., Batumike, R., Imani, G., Cuní-Sanchez, A., Kiahtipes, C.A., Lebamba, J., Wotzka, H., Bean, H., Baker, T.R., Baird, A.J., Boom, A., Morris, P.J., Page, S.E., Lawson, I.T., & Lewis, S.L. 2022. Mapping peat thickness and carbon stocks of the central Congo Basin using field data. Nature Geoscience.
- Map results: https://congopeat.net/maps/
- Ground-truth data, peat-thickness measurements and carbon-density measurements: https://github.com/CongoPeat/Peatland-mapping.git
- Remote-sensing datasets:
- ALOS PALSAR and ALOS-2 PALSAR-2 25 m HV and HH data https://www.eorc.jaxa.jp/ALOS/en/dataset/fnf_e.htm
- OSFAC ROC and DRC 60 m Landsat ETM + bands 5, 4 and 3 mosaics http://osfac.net/
- SRTM DEM 1-arc second and ASTER GDEM v2 1-arc second data http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/
Garcin, Y., Schefuß, E., Dargie, G.C., Hawthorne, D., Lawson, I.T., Sebag, D., Biddulph, G.E., Crezee, B., Bocko, Y.E., Ifo, S.A., Mampouya Wenina, Y.E., Mbemba, M., Ewango, C.E.N., Bola, P., Kanyama Tabu, J., Tyrrell, G., Young, D.M., Gassier, G., Girkin, N.T., Vane, C.H., Adatte, T., Baird, A.J., Boom, A., Gulliver, P., Morris, P.J., Page, S.E., Sjögersten, S., Lewis, S.L. 2022. Hydroclimatic vulnerability of peat carbon in the central Congo Basin. Nature.
- DATAVERSE repository: https://dataverse.ird.fr/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.23708/FO2HGM
- PANGAEA repository: https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.938019
2017
Dargie, G.C., Lewis, S.L., Lawson, I.T., Mitchard, E.T.A., Bocko, Y.E., Ifo, S.A. 2017. Age, extent and carbon storage of the central Congo Basin peatland complex. Nature. 542(7639), pp.86-90.
- Peatland probability map for the Cuvette Centrale: https://congopeat.net/maps/
- Remote-sensing products used to identify field sites in the Cuvette Centrale:
- ALOS PALSAR 50-m Orthorectified Mosaic (https://www.eorc.jaxa.jp/ALOS/en/index_e.htm)
- Landsat ETM imagery and SRTM DEM 3-arcsecond, void-filled data: http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/
- Remote-sensing products used in the maximum likelihood classification to map peatland extent within the Cuvette Centrale
- ALOS PALSAR 50-m HH and HV data (https://www.eorc.jaxa.jp/ALOS/en/index_e.htm)
- SRTM DEM 1-arcsecond data and ASTER GDEM, version 2, 1-arcsecond data (http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/)
- OSFAC ROC and DRC Landsat ETM+ bands 5, 4 and 3 mosaics (http://osfac.net/)
Jenkins, S.J., Mitchard, E.T.A., Honorio Coronado, E.N., Page, S.E., Emba Botuli, O., Crezee, B., Ifo, S.A., Dargie, G.C., Ewango, C.E.N., Bokungu, E., Lewis, S.L. 2025. Low, but gradually growing deforestation and carbon emissions from the Cuvette Centrale peatlands, 2001-2021. Environmental Research Letters, 20(104050).