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Felipe Galván-Magaña

Felipe Galván-Magaña

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45
Citations
7643
World Ranking
4861
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18

Overview

Felipe Galván-Magaña is affiliated with the Instituto Politécnico Nacional in Mexico. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with a significant focus on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Aquatic Science.

The scientist's research topics include Ichthyology and Marine Biology, Marine animal studies overview, Marine and fisheries research, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Mercury impact and mitigation studies, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, and Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Felipe Galván-Magaña include Fernando R. Elorriaga-Verplancken, Mauricio Hoyos-Padilla, Rogelio González-Armas, Ana Judith Marmolejo-Rodríguez, and James T. Ketchum.

Felipe Galván-Magaña has published extensively in various scientific journals. The most frequent venues are:

  • Environmental Biology of Fishes
  • Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • Regional Studies in Marine Science
  • Journal of Fish Biology
  • Marine Biology

Selected recent publications by this researcher include:

  • Diving into the vertical dimension of elasmobranch movement ecology (2022), Science Advances
  • Bioaccumulation and trophic transfer of potentially toxic elements in the pelagic thresher shark Alopias pelagicus in Baja California Sur, Mexico (2020), Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • Research priorities for the conservation of chondrichthyans in Latin America (2022), Biological Conservation
  • The Twilight Zone as a Major Foraging Habitat and Mercury Source for the Great White Shark (2020), Environmental Science & Technology
  • New insights into the trophic ecology of young white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) in waters off the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico (2020), Marine Biology

In addition to journal articles, Felipe Galván-Magaña has contributed to the book publication Resúmenes de la Red de Medio Ambiente, CIMA 2023, published by Ediciones Comunicación Científica eBooks in 2024.

Best Publications

  • Insight into the Trophic Ecology of Yellowfin Tuna, Thunnus albacares, from Compound‐Specific Nitrogen Isotope Analysis of Proteinaceous Amino Acids

    Brian N. Popp;Brittany S. Graham;Robert J. Olson;Cecelia C.S. Hannides

  • Vulnerabilities and fisheries impacts: The uncertain future of manta and devil rays

    Donald A. Croll;Heidi Dewar;Nicholas K. Dulvy;Daniel Fernando

  • Food habits and consumption rates of common dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus) in the eastern Pacific Ocean

    Robert J. Olson;Felipe Galván-Magaña

  • Food-web inferences of stable isotope spatial patterns in copepods and yellowfin tuna in the pelagic eastern Pacific Ocean

    Robert J. Olson;Brian N. Popp;Brittany S. Graham;Gladis A. López-Ibarra

  • Nitrogen isotopic baselines and implications for estimating foraging habitat and trophic position of yellowfin tuna in the Indian and Pacific Oceans

    Anne Lorrain;Brittany S. Graham;Brian N. Popp;Valérie Allain

  • Carbon and nitrogen discrimination factors for elasmobranch soft tissues based on a long-term controlled feeding study

    Sora Lee Kim;Sora Lee Kim;Dave R. Casper;Felipe Galván-Magaña;Ruth Ochoa-Díaz

  • Segregation and foraging ecology of whale sharks, Rhincodon typus, in the southwestern Gulf of California

    James Thomas Ketchum;Felipe Galván-Magaña;A. Peter Klimley

  • Decadal diet shift in yellowfin tuna Thunnus albacares suggests broad-scale food web changes in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean

    Robert J. Olson;Leanne M. Duffy;Petra M. Kuhnert;Felipe Galván-Magaña

  • Systematic list of marine fishes from Bahia Magdalena, Baja California Sur, Mexico

    J. De-la-Cruz-Agüero;F. Galván-Magaña;L.A. Abitia-Cárdenas;J. Rodríguez-Romero

  • ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS OF δ13C, δ15N, AND δ34S “A FEEDING TALE” IN TEETH OF THE LONGBEAKED COMMON DOLPHIN, DELPHINUS CAPENSIS

    Carlos Alberto Niño-Torres;Juan Pablo Gallo-Reynoso;Felipe Galván-Magaña;Elva Escobar-Briones

  • The artisanal elasmobranch fishery of the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico, management implications

    Sergio R. Ramirez-Amaro;Daniel Cartamil;Felipe Galvan-Magaña;Gerardo Gonzalez-Barba

  • Oxidative stress indicators and trace elements in the blue shark (Prionace glauca) off the east coast of the Mexican Pacific Ocean.

    Angélica Barrera-García;Todd O'Hara;Felipe Galván-Magaña;Lía C. Méndez-Rodríguez

  • Demographic Processes Underlying Subtle Patterns of Population Structure in the Scalloped Hammerhead Shark, Sphyrna lewini

    Holly A. Nance;Peter Klimley;Felipe Galván-Magaña;Jimmy Martínez-Ortíz

  • Lista sistemática de la ictiofauna de Bahía de la Paz,Baja California Sur, México

    L.A. Abitia-Cárdenas;J. Rodríguez-Romero;F. Galván-Magaña;J. De-la-Cruz-Agüero

  • Biomagnification of mercury and selenium in blue shark Prionace glauca from the Pacific Ocean off Mexico.

    Ofelia Escobar-Sánchez;Felipe Galván-Magaña;René Rosíles-Martínez

  • Bioaccumulation and biomagnification of total mercury in four exploited shark species in the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico.

    A. Maz-Courrau;C. López-Vera;Felipe Galván-Magaña;Ofelia Escobar-Sánchez

  • Age and growth of the shortfin mako shark, Isurus oxyrinchus, from the western coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico

    M.C. Ribot-Carballal;F. Galván-Magaña;C. Quiñónez-Velázquez

  • Diving into the vertical dimension of elasmobranch movement ecology

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  • Analyzing pelagic food webs leading to top predators in the Pacific Ocean: A graph-theoretic approach

    Jeffrey M. Dambacher;Jock W. Young;Robert J. Olson;Valérie Allain

  • Diet composition of sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus) from the southern Gulf of California, Mexico

    José Rosas-Alayola;Agustı́n Hernández-Herrera;Felipe Galvan-Magaña;L. Andres Abitia-Cárdenas

  • Diet of blue marlin Makaira mazara off the coast of Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico

    Leonardo Andres Abitia-Cardenas;Felipe Galvan-Magaña;Francisco Javier Gutierrez-Sanchez;Jesus Rodriguez-Romero

  • Global trophic ecology of yellowfin, bigeye, and albacore tunas: Understanding predation on micronekton communities at ocean-basin scales

    Leanne M. Duffy;Petra M. Kuhnert;Heidi R. Pethybridge;Jock W. Young

  • Trace elements and oxidative stress indicators in the liver and kidney of the blue shark (Prionace glauca)

    Angélica Barrera-García;Todd O'Hara;Felipe Galván-Magaña;Lía C. Méndez-Rodríguez

  • Movement and habitat use by the spine-tail devil ray in the Eastern Pacific Ocean

    Donald A. Croll;Kelly M. Newton;Kevin Weng;Felipe Galván-Magaña

  • Diet and trophic position of the devil rays Mobula thurstoni and Mobula japanica as inferred from stable isotope analysis

    Laura Sampson;Felipe Galván-Magaña;Roxana De Silva-Dávila;Sergio Aguíñiga-García

Frequent Co-Authors

Federico Páez-Osuna
Federico Páez-Osuna National Autonomous University of Mexico
Todd M. O'Hara
Todd M. O'Hara University of Alaska Fairbanks
M.P. Jonathan
M.P. Jonathan Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Donald A. Croll
Donald A. Croll University of California, Santa Cruz
Jock W. Young
Jock W. Young Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Frédéric Ménard
Frédéric Ménard Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Brian N. Popp
Brian N. Popp University of Hawaii at Manoa
Christopher G. Lowe
Christopher G. Lowe California State University, Long Beach
Brian Fry
Brian Fry Griffith University
Anne Lorrain
Anne Lorrain Institut de Recherche pour le Développement

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