“…These peatlands provide important environmental services, such as carbon sequestration and water reservoirs (Silva et al, 2009(Silva et al, , 2013Bispo et al, 2016;Campos et al, 2016Campos et al, , 2017. The SdEM has one of the Earth's main areas of tropical mountain peatlands (Silva et al, 2020), which have been studied for many years (Silva et al, 2009(Silva et al, , 2013(Silva et al, , 2019(Silva et al, , 2020Horák et al, 2011;Horák-Terra et al, 2014Bispo et al, 2015Bispo et al, , 2016Campos et al, 2016Campos et al, , 2017, demonstrating their potential as paleoenvironmental archives (Horák et al, 2011;Horák-Terra et al, 2014Luz et al, 2017).…”