Sustainable Development Goals
Research interests
• Aquatic microbial ecology
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Marine ecology
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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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