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Current projects

2026 - 2029

Ecotourism as a stress inducer: Cumulative ecological impacts of multiple stressors on neotropical caimans

PI: Rosanna Mangione

Supervisor: L. Fusani; Co-Supervisor: J. Lemaire

Collaborators: V. Canoine, M. Cabeza, J. Harl

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Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften / Austrian Academy of Sciences

2026 - 2029

A Multibiomarker Approach to Mercury Effects on Crocodylians

PI: Jérémy Lemaire

Collaborators: 

Virginie Canoine

Leonida Fusani

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FWF Austrian Science Fund - 10.55776/PAT4445525

2026 - 2030 

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Mercury effects on tropical frog's health and behaviour

PI: Bibiana Rojas Zuluaga

Collaborators: 

Jérémy Lemaire 

Valeria Marasco 

Andrius Pašukonis

FWF Austrian Science Fund - 10.55776/PAT2809825

2024 

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Investigation of host-associated and environmental microbiomes to the Hg detoxification strategies of two caiman species in French Guiana

PI: Jérémy Lemaire & Zhen-Hao Luo

Collaborators: 

Rosanna Mangione 

Melina Kerou

Mason Scarpa

Postdoctoral Research Seed Grant, University of Vienna

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2023 - 2026

Effect of mercury on physiology of a neotropical caiman

PI: Jérémy Lemaire

Collaborators: 

Virginie Canoine

FWF Austrian Science Fund - ESPRIT - 10.55776/ESP408

2022 - 2025

Evaluation of the impacts of legal and illegal goldmining activities on mercury and other trace elements contamination in caimans from French Guiana

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2022 - 2024

Monitoring of caiman nest sites using drones (UAV)

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2019 - current

Trace element 
contamination in neotropical snakes

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2023 - current

Mercury contamination in neotropical bats

Collaborations

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University of Veterinary Medicine, Austria -

Effect of mercury contamination on neotropical frogs

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Florida University, USA -

Mercury contamination in African crocodylians

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BOKU University, Austria -

Mercury contamination in Green toads in Vienna, Austria

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