Academic Work

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Academic Group

• Ecological strategy for the sustainable development of aquatic ecosystems

Sustainable Development Goals

Research interests

• Aquatic microbial ecology
• Marine ecology
• Sanitary quality assessment of water, sediment and biota

Profile

Professor Alfonso Esquivel Herrera is attached to the Department of Man and his Environment at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Xochimilco since 1988. He studied a B.Sc. in Biology, Department of Hydrobiology UAM Iztapalapa Campus with a Specialty in Marine Sciences Interdisciplinary Center of Marine Sciences (CICIMAR) at the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), an M.Sc. in Marine Sciences Interdisciplinary Center of Marine Sciences (CICIMAR) at the IPN and a Ph.D. in Biological and Health Sciences (completed credits) UAM with Specialty in Aquatic Ecology. His current research projects are ecological, biochemical, and molecular biological studies of bacterial communities in Mexican aquatic systems. Responsible. She belongs to the Program for the Improvement of Teaching Staff, PROMEP Desirable Profile.

His latest publications include the following: Alfonso Esquivel Y Ruth Soto Castor. 2017. Biological contamination in the Xochimilco Lake Zone. In Bojórquez, L. (coord.) Contaminación química y biológica en la Zona Lacustre de Xochimilco. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana. Division of Biological and Health Sciences. pp. 226-277. Alfonso Esquivel Herrera & Ruth Soto Castor. 2018. A multivariate approach to the spatial and temporal water characterization parameters at the tropical Sontecomapan Lagoon, Mexico. In Ecología de la Laguna de Sontecomapan, Veracruz. UAM-Xochimilco - IRD (France). pp. 11-33. Ruth Soto-Castor & Alfonso Esquivel-Herrera. 2018. Evaluation anthropic fecal contamination through enteropathogenic genera identification in Sontecomapan coastal lagoon, Veracruz. In Ecología de la Laguna de Sontecomapan, Veracruz. UAM-Xochimilco - IRD (France). pp.233-252. Ma. Elena Castellanos-Páez, Alfonso Esquivel-Herrera, Javier Aldeco-Ramírez, Marc Pagano. 2018. Main ecological traits of the Sontecomapan Lagoon. In Ecología de la Laguna de Sontecomapan, Veracruz. UAM-Xochimilco - IRD (France). pp.315-325. Norma Sánchez-Santillán, Alfonso Esquivel-Herrera and Javier Aldeco-Ramírez. 2019. Relation between the sharpnose shark Rhizoprinodon terranovae in the southern Gulf of Mexico and the average number of sunspots. Hidrobiológica 29 (1): 9-16.

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Research interests

• Aquatic microbial ecology
• Marine ecology
• Sanitary quality assessment of water, sediment and biota

Academic Work

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Open Access	References	UN SDGs
OA	Álvarez-Ortiz, F.A., Azorín-Nieto, J., Soto-Sumuano, J.L. and 1 more (...) (2023).Study of non-ionizing radiation emissions in two zones of Xochimilco, México City. Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales,47(182) 141-150	\| 3\| 11 \|
OA	Ayala-Pérez, L.A., Castillo-Adame, I.L., Esquivel- Herrera, A. and 4 more (...) (2022).Relationships between the environment and structure of the fish community in nycthemeral cycles in the Mecoacán lagoon, Tabasco, Mexico. Revista Ciencias Marinas y Costeras,14(1) 9-29
	Sánchez-Santillán, N., Esquivel-Herrera, A., Aldeco-Ramírez, J. (2019).Relation between the sharpnose shark Rhizoprinodonterranovaein the southern Gulf of Mexico and the average number of sunspots. Hidrobiologica,29(1) 9-16
	Rivera-Becerril, F., Juárez-Vázquez, L.V., Hernández-Cervantes, S.C. and 6 more (...) (2013).Impacts of manganese mining activity on the environment: Interactions among soil, plants, and arbuscular mycorrhiza. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology,64(2) 219-227

Courses offered

*Courses are conducted in spanish

Num.	Trim.	Course Name	Level
1	23P	Análisis y Planeación Ambiental	Licenciatura
2	23P	Fundamentos Ecológicos y Económicos para el Uso y Conservación de Recursos Naturales Bióticos	Posgrado
3	23I	Análisis de Sistemas Ecológicos	Licenciatura
4	23I	Seminario de Investigación II	Posgrado
5	23I	Seminario de Investigación II	Posgrado
6	22O	Seminario de Investigación I	Posgrado
7	22O	Seminario de Investigación I	Posgrado
8	22P	Análisis y Planeación Ambiental	Licenciatura
9	22P	Fundamentos Ecológicos y Económicos para el Uso y Conservación de Recursos Naturales Bióticos	Posgrado
10	22P	Trabajo de Investigación IV	Posgrado
11	22P	Trabajo de Investigación IV	Posgrado
12	22I	Análisis de Sistemas Ecológicos	Licenciatura
13	22I	Trabajo de Investigación III	Posgrado
14	22I	Trabajo de Investigación III	Posgrado
15	22I	Seminario de Investigación II	Posgrado
16	21O	Trabajo de Investigación II	Posgrado
17	21O	Trabajo de Investigación II	Posgrado
18	21O	Seminario de Investigación I	Posgrado
19	21P	Análisis y Planeación Ambiental	Licenciatura
20	21P	Fundamentos Ecológicos y Económicos para el Uso y Conservación de Recursos Naturales Bióticos	Posgrado
21	21P	Trabajo de Investigación I	Posgrado
22	21P	Trabajo de Investigación I	Posgrado
23	21P	Trabajo de Investigación IV	Posgrado
24	21I	Análisis de Sistemas Ecológicos	Licenciatura
25	21I	Trabajo de Investigación III	Posgrado
26	20O	Trabajo de Investigación II	Posgrado
27	20P	Análisis y Planeación Ambiental	Licenciatura
28	20P	Fundamentos Ecológicos y Económicos para el Uso y Conservación de Recursos Naturales Bióticos	Posgrado
29	20P	Trabajo de Investigación I	Posgrado
30	20I	Análisis de Sistemas Ecológicos	Licenciatura
31	20I	Seminario de Investigación II	Posgrado

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