ECOFIT

ECOFIT is multi-institutional ecological and paleoecology operation started in Lima in 1992. It specializes in montitoring ecology and paleo-ecology of tropical forests, in parts of South America and also in coastal Central Africa.

The program involves the study of fossils and soils of tropical forests particularly related to the Holocene period. [cite web|author=Riera, B|url=http://www.etfrn.org/etfrn/newsletter/nl29_oip.html#theeco|title=The Ecofit Program|Palaeoecology of Central Africa and South America|publisher=European Tropical Forest Research Network|accessdate=August 23|accessyear=2008]

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