Using ancient DNA to investigate the environmental impacts of climate change and humans through time

这个项目将提供关于气候变化和人类影响在过去5万年里如何影响我们的环境的重要信息，消除了许多大型哺乳动物并改变了地形。如果我们要预测全球变暖等持续变化的影响，正确了解我们当前环境的背景是至关重要的。这项研究将集中在这段时间内气候变化对北美、南美、新西兰、澳大利亚和非洲大型哺乳动物的影响，并将检查每个地点人类的额外影响。

This project will provide important information about how climate change and human impact have effected our environment over the past 50,000 years, removing many of the large mammals and altering the landscape. It is critical that the background to our current environment is properly understood if we are to predict the effects of on-going changes such as global warming. The research will concentrate on the effects of climate change on large mammals in North and South America, New Zealand, Australia and Africa over this time period, and will examine the additional impact of humans in each location.