Human use of early tropical forest ecosystems

人类对早期热带森林生态系统的利用

• 批准号: DP230101273
• 负责人: Prof Julien Louys
• 金额: $ 41.44万
• 依托单位: Griffith University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2024-03-31 至 2027-03-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP230101273
• 关键词: Human; use; early; tropical; forest

This project aims to investigate the earliest records of tropical forests occupied by modern humans. This project expects to reconstruct ancient tropical ecosystems through time and in unprecedented detail by applying interdisciplinary methods including analyses of fossil mammals, carbonates, and pollen records. Expected outcomes of this project include novel ecological techniques of reconstructing the tropical forests that people first inhabited, and advancing our understanding of modern human behaviour, environmental adaptation, and past exploitation of key ecosystems. This should provide significant benefits such as better understanding of the long-term interaction between tropical forests, their faunas, and people.

该项目旨在调查现代人类居住的热带森林的最早记录。该项目期望通过应用跨学科方法，包括分析哺乳动物化石、碳酸盐和花粉记录，以前所未有的细节，随着时间的推移重建古代热带生态系统。该项目的预期成果包括重建人类最初居住的热带森林的新颖生态技术，并增进我们对现代人类行为、环境适应和过去对关键生态系统的利用的理解。这应该会带来显着的好处，例如更好地了解热带森林、动物区系和人类之间的长期相互作用。