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Funding Year 2012-13


Project: 12/1 Home range and habitat use for Caiman latirostris (Crocodylia, Alligatoridae) in Santa Fe, Argentina.
Student: Thialgo Costa Goncalves Portelinha (Argentina)

Institution(s):
University of Cordoba
Status: Ongoing

Project: 12/2 Spatiotemporal dynamics of a Dwarf caiman (Paleosuchus palpebrosus) population in the Brazilian Cerrado.
Student: Victor Batista (Brazil)
 
Institution(s):
Universidade de Brasilia
Status: Ongoing

Project: 12/3 Environmental perturbation impact on host-parasite dynamics of Alligator mississippiensis and its helminth parasites.
Student: Marisa Tellez (USA)
 
Institution(s):
University of California
Status: Complete (Final Report)

Project: 12/4 Population state, space distribution and reproductive aspects of Paleosuchus trigonatus in the Kak'kada River, Venezuela.
Student: Carlos Valeris Chacin (Venezuela)
 
Institution(s):
Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana
Status:

Ongoing


Project: 12/5 Movement of resident and relocated male caimans between protected and impacted habitats in Amazonia.
Student: Guiherme Freire (Brazil)
 
Institution(s):
Universidad Federal do Amazonas
Status: Ongoing

Project: 12/6 Carrying capacity of the American crocodile population in the Tempisque River basin.
Student: Natalia Carrillo Rivera (Costa Rica)
 
Institution(s):
Instituto Internacional en Conservacion y
Manejo de Vida Silvestre,
Universidad Nacional
Status: Ongoing

Project: 12/7 Use of space, isotopic fractionation and genetic characterization of Caiman latirostris in eucalypt landscape.
Student: Thiago Marques (Brazil)
 
Institution(s):
University of Sao Paulo
Status: Ongoing

Project: 12/8 Population ecology of Crocodylus acutus (Cuvier 1807) in Parque Nacional Natural Tayrona, Colombian Caribbean.
Student: Nidia Farfan Ardila (Colombia)
 
Institution(s):
Universidad Pedagogica y Technologica de
Colombia Sede Central Tunja-Boyaca
Status: Ongoing

Project: 12/9 Conservation status of Caiman crocodilus and Melanosuchus niger in the Galvez River basin, Loreto, Peru.
Student:  Dani Rivera (Peru)
 
Institution(s):
Instituto Internacional de Conservacion y
Manejo de Vida Silvestre
Status: Ongoing

Project: 12/10 Crocodile habitat use and strategies to reduce human-crocodile conflicts in agro-pastoral dams in northern Benin.
Student: Gnanki Nathalie Kpera (Benin)
 
Institution(s):
University of Abomey Calavi
Status: Ongoing

Project: 12/11 Agonistic behaviour in hatchling crocodilians.
Student: Matthew Brien (Australia)
 
Institution(s):
Charles Darwin University;
Wildlife Management International
Status: Ongoing

Project: 13/1 Evaluation of chromosomal and micronucleus aberrations in Caiman latirostris embryos exposed to insecticides.
Student:   Evelyn Cecilia Lopez Gonzalez (Argentina)
 
Institution(s):
Proyecto Yacare; Universidad Nacional del Litoral;
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Status: Ongoing

Project: 13/2 Abundance, demographic structure and relations with habitat for the American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) in Coiba National Park, Panama.
Student: Betzaida Ivelisse Rivera Rivera (Panama)

Institution(s):
Servicio Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (Panama);
Texas Tech University; Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Status: Ongoing

Project: 13/3 Diet, body condition and blood biochemistry of breeding female Caiman crocodilus in Central Amazonia.
Student:  Jose Antonio Nobrega (Brazil)
 
Institution(s):
Universidade de Aveiro (Portugal); Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia (Brazil)
Status: Ongoing

Project: 13/4 Populations ecology and reproduction of Crocodylus acutus (Cuvier 1807) in Parque Nacional Natural Tayrona, Colombian Caribbean.
Student: David Alonso Vargas Ortego (Colombia)  
Institution(s):
Universidad Pedagogica y Tecnologica de Colombia
Status: Ongoing

Project: 13/5 Nesting ecology of two populations of Crocodylus moreletii in South Tamaulipas, Mexico.
Student:  Cesar Norberto Cedillo Leal
 
Institution(s):
Universidada Autonoma de Tamaulipas, Campus Cd. Victoria
Status: Ongoing