George BiddulphUniversity of St Andrews · Department of Geography and Sustainable Development
George Biddulph
MSc Quaternary Science; BSc Human and Physical Geography
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Introduction
I am currently working on my PhD at the University of St Andrews titled 'Past and present spatial patterning of the newly-discovered peat swamp forests in the central Congo Basin. I will investigate these extensive peatlands using pollen, charcoal and XRF analyses. My main interests are based on the environmental responses to climate events and human activity during the late Quaternary period in Central Africa.
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Publications (5)
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 vulnerability using peat cores from a large interfluvial basin in the Republic of the Congo and palaeoenvironmental methods. We find that peat accu...
The Cuvette Centrale is the largest tropical peatland complex in the world, covering approximately 145,000 km2 across the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo. It stores ca. 30.6 Pg C, the equivalent of three years of global carbon dioxide emis- sions and is now the first trans-natio- nal Ramsar site. Despite its size and importan...
The British Isles lack long high-precision and independent chronologies to reconstruct Holocene environmental and climatic conditions at sub-decadal timescales. This paper reports the first Holocene varved chronology for the lacustrine sediment record of Diss Mere in the UK. The record of Diss Mere is 15 m long, and shows 4.2 m of finely-laminated...
