Topic: Impacts of human-induced habitat disturbances on the dyeing poison frog Dendrobates tinctorius

Self: I am a PhD student in the ROJAS lab, with a strong interest in animal ecology, behaviour, and amphibian conservation.

Project: Currently, I am investigating the impact of different global change factors, including habitat disturbance, mercury pollution and the fungal-caused infectious disease chytridiomycosis, on the poison frog Dendrobates tinctorius. To do so, I am studying the three-way interaction between the “protective” microbiome of the frog’s skin, the fungal disease, and anthropogenic stressors.

Supervisors:
This project is part of the work developed in the ROJAS lab, located in the Konrad Lorenz Institute of Ethology, and led by Asst. Prof. of Global Change Biology Bibiana Rojas, and supported by Priv.-Dozⁱⁿ  Drⁱⁿ med.vet. Pamela Burger from the Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology.