“…The PMFB, located in the Loreto Department in northeast Peru, comprises around 62 714 km 2 of potential peat‐forming vegetation (Hastie et al, 2022). Peatlands in the PMFB represent a globally important carbon store (Schulman et al, 1999; Freitas Alvarado et al, 2006; Lähteenoja et al, 2009a, b), holding an estimated 5.4 Pg of carbon (Hastie et al, 2022), most of which is below‐ground in the form of peat – defined as substrates composed of ≥65% organic material and ≥0.3 m thickness (Charman, 2002; Wüst et al, 2003; Lawson et al, 2014; Dargie et al, 2017). Peat in the PMFB can reach 7–8 m in thickness, and basal ages of almost 9000 cal a bp have been reported (Lähteenoja et al, 2012).…”