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Funding Year 2010
Project:
10/1
Conservation of American crocodile (
Crocodylus acutus
) with participation of indigenous Bari in the Maracaibo Basin, Venezuela.
Student:
Junior Telesforo Larreal (Venezuela)
Institution(s):
Universidad del Zulia
Status:
Completed (
final report
)
Project:
10/2
Population structure of
Crocodylus acutus
in the wetland lower river basin of the Tempisque River, Guanacaste, Costa Rica.
Student:
Andrés Jiménez Solera (Costa Rica)
Institution(s):
Universidad Estatal a Distancia
Status:
Ongoing
Project:
10/3
Morphometric analysis of Antillean crocodiles.
Student:
Jeremy Weaver (USA)
Institution(s):
Texas Tech University
Status:
Ongoing
Project:
10/4
Population ecology and habitat selection of and inland alligator (
Alligator mississippiensis
) population at the edge of the distribution range.
Student:
Joseph Lewis (USA)
Institution(s):
Texas A&M University
Status:
Completed (
final report
)
Project:
10/5
Enrichment of Yacare caiman (
Caiman yacare
) diet with selenium and vitamin E - stress, growth and immune response.
Student:
Guillermo Principe (Argentina)
Institution(s):
Laboratorio de Zoología Aplicada: Anexo Vertebrados, La Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Universidad Nacional del Litoral
Status:
Completed (
final report
)
Project:
10/6
Population genetics of the American Crocodile (
Crocodylus acutus
) in Coiba Marine National Park, Panama.
Student:
Ashish Bashyal (Panama)
Institution(s):
Texas Tech University
Status:
Completed (
final report
)
Project:
10/7
Effects of ultraviolet radiation on the immune response of Yacare Caiman (
Caiman latirostris
) hatchlings.
Student:
Lucía Fernández (Argentina)
Institution(s):
Laboratorio de Zoología Aplicada: Anexo Vertebrados, La Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Universidad Nacional del Litoral
Status:
Complete (
final report
)
Project
: 10/8
Evaluation of
Trichinella
predilection sites in relation to infection intensity in Nile Crocodiles (
Crocodylus niloticus
)
Student:
Louis La Grange
Institution(s):
University of KwaZulu-Natal
Status:
Completed (
Final Report
)
Project:
10/9
Population monitoring of Black Caiman (
Melanosuchus niger
) and Spectacled Caiman (
Caiman crocodilus
) in the Amazon basin of Ecuador.
Student:
Diego Ortiz (Ecuador)
Institution(s):
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
Status:
Complete (
final report
)
Project:
10/10
Isotopic turnover rates in tissues of American Alligators (
Alligator mississippiensis
).
Student:
Adam Rosenblatt (USA)
Institution(s):
International University of Florida
Status:
Ongoing
Project:
10/11
Population ecology and conservation of
Osteolaemus tetraspis
in Cameroon.
Student:
Nicole Smolensky (USA)
Institution(s):
Texas A&M University
Status:
Complete (
final report
)
Project:
10/12
Non-invasive monitoring of glucocorticoid metabolites in captive Nile Crocodiles (
Crocodylus niloticus
).
Student:
Stefanie Münscher (South Africa)
Institution(s):
University of Pretoria
Status:
Ongoing (
Final report
)
Project:
10/13
Population ecology and behaviour of
Caiman latirostris
in Pirapitinga Ecological Station, southeastern Brazil.
Student:
Luiza Passos (Brazil)
Institution(s):
Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais
Status:
Ongoing