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dcterms:bibliographicCitation "Lawson, I., Hawthorne, D., Biddulph, G., Dargie, G., Gulliver, P., Lewis, S. (2026). Palaeoenvironmental data from Congo Basin peatland sites, Republic of Congo and Democratic Republic of Congo, 2018-2024. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/6199f5c9-9dfd-407c-95a2-207805d692c4" ;
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