Human use of early tropical forest ecosystems

该项目旨在调查现代人类居住的热带森林的最早记录。该项目希望通过应用跨学科的方法，包括对哺乳动物化石、碳酸盐和花粉记录的分析，以前所未有的细节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生态技术，并促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开发的理解。这将带来重大的好处，例如更好地了解热带森林、它们的动物群和人类之间的长期相互作用。

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.