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

该项目将提供有关过去5万年来气候变化和人类影响如何影响我们环境的重要信息，消除了许多大型哺乳动物并改变了景观。如果我们要预测正在发生的变化（如全球变暖）的影响，正确理解我们当前环境的背景至关重要。该研究将集中在这段时间内气候变化对北美和南美，新西兰，澳大利亚和非洲大型哺乳动物的影响，并将研究人类在每个地点的额外影响。

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.