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•       Forero-Bastidas, O., Vasquez, A., Garzón-Rodríguez, L., Ortíz-Oyola, D., Nieto-Alvarado, L., Tavera, J., & Polo-Silva, C. 2023. Evidencia del tiburón limón, Negaprion brevirostris (Poey) (Carcharhiniformes: Carcharhinidae) en el golfo de Salamanca, Caribe colombiano. Boletín de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras, 52(1), 201-204. https://doi.org/10.25268/bimc.invemar.2023.52.1.1204

 

•       Estupiñán-Montaño, C., Elorriaga-Verplancken, F. R., Galván-Magaña, F., Sánchez-González, A., Polo-Silva, C. J., & Zetina-Rejón, M. J. 2023. Terrestrial food web of the Malpelo Fauna and Flora Sanctuary, Colombia: An analysis from a topological approach. Ecological Informatics, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2023.102074

 

•       Lozano-Peña, J. P., Polo-Silva, C. J., Delgado-Huertas, A., & Sanjuan-Muñoz, A. 2023. Isotopic niche partitioning between an invasive fish and two native mesopredators in the Colombian Caribbean. Food Webs, e00272. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fooweb.2023.e00272

 

•       Estupiñán-Montaño, C., Zetina-Rejón, M. J., Galván-Magaña, F., Delgado-Huertas, A., Elorriaga-Verplancken, F. R., Polo-Silva, C. J., & Sánchez-González, A. 2023. Trophic connectivity between the terrestrial and marine ecosystems of Malpelo Island, Colombia, evaluated through stable isotope analysis. Marine Biology, 170(1), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-022-04157-1

 

•       Becerril-García, E.E., Arauz, R., Arellano-Martínez, M., Bonfil, R., Ayala-Bocos, A., Castillo-Géniz, J.L., Carrera-Fernández, M., Charvet, P., Chiaramonte, G., Cisneros-Montemayor, A.M., Carlos Polo-Silva. and Concha, F., 2022. Research priorities for the conservation of chondrichthyans in Latin America. Biological Conservation, 269, p.109535. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109535

 

•       Sanjuan-Muñoz, A., Bustos-Montes, D., Polo-Silva, C. J., Henao-Castro, A., Marrugo, M., Delgado-Huertas, A., & Acero P, A. 2022. Biology and ecology of lionfish (Pterois volitans) in the Corales de Profundidad Natural National Park, Colombian Caribbean. Boletín de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras-INVEMAR, 51(1), 75-98. https://doi.org/10.25268/bimc.invemar.2022.51.1.1087

 

•       Castellanos-Jiménez, M. C., Polo-Silva, C. J., Sanjuan-Muñoz, A., & Delgado-Huertas, A. 2021. Trophic inferences of the gray triggerfish Balistes capriscus based on stable isotopes analyses, in the Colombian Caribbean. Journal of Sea Research, 102140. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seares.2021.102140

 

•       Grace, M.K., Akçakaya, H.R., Bennett, E.L., Brooks, T.M., Heath, A., Hedges, S., Hilton‐Taylor, C., Hoffmann, M., Hochkirch, A., Polo-Silva, C., Jenkins, R. and Keith, D.A., 2021. Testing a global standard for quantifying species recovery and assessing conservation impact. Conservation Biology https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13756.

 

•       Estupiñán-Montaño, C., Galván-Magaña, F., Elorriaga-Verplancken, F., Zetina-Rejón, M. J., Sánchez-González, A., Polo-Silva, C. J., & Delgado-Huertas, A. 2021. Ontogenetic feeding ecology of the scalloped hammerhead shark Sphyrna lewini in the Colombian Eastern Tropical Pacific. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 663, 127-143. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13639

 

•   Garzón-Peña LV, Barrera-García A, Delgado-Huertas A, Polo-Silva CJ. 2021. Isotopic enrichment in Rhizoprionodon porosus (Poey, 1861) and Carcharhinus porosus (Ranzani, 1840) embryos. Journal of Fish Biology. 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.14651

 

•       Sandoval, L.A., Leal‐Flórez, J., Blanco‐Libreros, J.F., Mancera‐Pineda, J.E., Antonio, A.D.H. and Polo‐Silva, C.J., (2020). Stable isotope analysis reveals sources of organic matter and ontogenic feeding shifts of a mangrove‐dependent predator species, New Granada Sea Catfish, Ariopsis canteri. Journal of Fish Biology. 97, 499-507. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.14404

 

•       Barragán-Barrera, D. C., Luna-Acosta, A., May-Collado, L. J., Polo-Silva, C. J., Riet-Sapriza, F. G., Bustamante, P., & Caballero, S. 2019. Foraging habits and levels of mercury in a resident population of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in Bocas del Toro Archipelago, Caribbean Sea, Panama. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 145, 343-356. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2019.04.076

 

•   Estupiñán-Montaño, C., Cedeño-Figueroa, L., Estupiñán-Ortiz, J. F., Galván-Magaña, F., Sandoval-Londoño, A., Castañeda-Suarez, D., & Polo-Silva, C. J. 2018. Feeding habits and trophic level of the smooth hammerhead shark, Sphyrna zygaena (Carcharhiniformes: Sphyrnidae), off Ecuador. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 1-8. https://doi:10.1017/S0025315418000474

 

•   Acero P A, Polo‐Silva CJ, Puentes V, León J. 2018. First report of a sleeper shark (Somniosus sp.) in the southern Colombian Caribbean. Journal Applied Ichthyology.;34(4):981–983. https://doi.org/10.1111/jai.13712

 

•       Christopher S Bird, Ana Veríssimo, Sarah Magozzi, Kátya G Abrantes, Alex Aguilar, Hassan Al-Reasi, Adam Barnett, Dana M Bethea, Gérard Biais, Asuncion Borrell, Marc Bouchoucha, Mariah Boyle, Edward J Brooks, Juerg Brunnschweiler, Paco Bustamante, Aaron Carlisle, Diana Catarino, Stéphane Caut, Yves Cherel, Tiphaine Chouvelon, Diana Churchill, Javier Ciancio, Julien Claes, Ana Colaço, Dean L Courtney, Pierre Cresson, Ryan Daly, Leigh de Necker, Tetsuya Endo, Ivone Figueiredo, Ashley J Frisch, Joan Holst Hansen, Michael Heithaus, Nigel E Hussey, Johannes Iitembu, Francis Juanes, Michael J Kinney, Jeremy J Kiszka, Sebastian A Klarian, Dorothée Kopp, Robert Leaf, Yunkai Li, Anne Lorrain, Daniel J Madigan, Aleksandra Maljković, Luis Malpica-Cruz, Philip Matich, Mark G Meekan, Frédéric Ménard, Gui M Menezes, Samantha EM Munroe, Michael C Newman, Yannis P Papastamatiou, Heidi Pethybridge, Jeffrey D Plumlee, Carlos Polo-Silva, Katie Quaeck-Davies, Vincent Raoult, Jonathan Reum, Yassir Eden Torres-Rojas, David S Shiffman, Oliver N Shipley, Conrad W Speed, Michelle D Staudinger, Amy K Teffer, Alexander Tilley, Maria Valls, Jeremy J Vaudo, Tak-Cheung Wai, RJ David Wells, Alex SJ Wyatt, Andrew Yool, Clive N Trueman. 2018. A global perspective on the trophic geography of sharks. Nature ecology & evolution, 2. 2, 299–305. https://doi:10.1038/s41559-017-0432-z

•   Estupiñán-Montaño, C, Estupiñán-Ortiz, J. F., Cedeño-Figueroa, L. G., Magaña, F. G., & Polo-Silva, C. J. 2017. Diet of the bull shark, Carcharhinus leucas, and the tiger shark, Galeocerdo cuvier, in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Turkish Journal of Zoology, 41(6), 1111-1117. https://10.3906/zoo-1610-31

 

•   Polo‐Silva, C., Acevedo, G., Siu, S., Carvajal, J. M., Ixquiac, M., Bessudo, S., & Puentes, V. 2018. Morphometric relationships for some species of elasmobranch from tropical eastern Pacific. Journal of Applied Ichthyology, 34(1), 157-161. https://doi.org/10.1111/jai.13460

 

•       S.S. Zeichner, A.S. Colman, P.L. Koch, C. Polo-Silva, F.  Galván-Magaña, S.L.  Kim. 2017. Discrimination factors and incorporation rates for organic components in shark teeth based on a captive feeding study. Physiological and biochemical zoology, 90(2), 257-272. https://doi.org/10.1086/689192

 

•       Polo-Silva C, Galván-Magaña F, Newsome SD, Grijalba-Bendeck M and Sanjuan-Muñoz. 2013. Trophic shift in the diet of pelagic thresher shark based on stomach contents and stable isotopic analysis. Marine Biology Research. 9(10):958-971. https://doi.org/10.1080/17451000.2013.793802

 

•       Felipe Galván-Magaña, Carlos Polo-Silva, Sandra Berenice Hernández-Aguilar, Alejandro Sandoval-Londoño, Maria Ruth Ochoa-Díaz, Nallely Aguilar-Castro, David Castañeda- Suárez, Alejandra Cabrera Chavez-Costa, Álvaro Baigorrí-Santacruz, Yassir Eden Torres- Rojas, Leonardo Andrés Abitia-Cárdenas. 2013. Shark predation on cephalopods in the Mexican and Ecuadorian Pacific Ocean. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. 95, 52-62.https://10.1016/j.dsr2.2013.04.002

 

•       Carlos J. Polo-Silva, Felipe Galvan-Magaña and Antonio Delgado-Huertas. 2012. Trophic inferences of blue shark (Prionace glauca) in the Mexican Pacific from stable isotope analysis in teeth. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 26:1631-1638. https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.6275

 

•       Marcela Grijalba-Bendeck, Carlos Polo-Silva, Kelly Acevedo, Fabian Moreno y Diego Mojica. 2012. Trophic and reproductive aspects of some batoids caught at Santa Marta in the Colombian Caribbean Sea. Latin American Journal Aquatic Research. 40(2): 300-315. https://doi.org/10.3856/vol40-issue2-fulltext-6

 

•   Carlos Polo-Silva, Liliana Rendón y Felipe Galván-Magaña. 2009. Diet description in the pelagic thresher sharks (Alopias pelagicus) and bigeye thresher shark (Alopias superciliosus) during rainy season in Ecuadorian waters. Pan-American Journal of Aquatic Sciences. 4(4):556-571.

 

•       Fabián Moreno, Kelly Acevedo+, Marcela Grijalba-Bendeck, Carlos Polo-Silva y Arturo Acero P. 2009. Trophic spectrum of the electric ray Narcine bancroftii (Griffith & Smith 1834) (Elasmobranchii, Narcinidae) in playa Salguero, Santa Marta, Colombian Caribbean. Pan-American Journal of Aquatic Sciences. 4(4):413-422.

 

•   Polo-Silva C. y M. Grijalba-Bendeck. 2008. Trophic spectrum of Guitarfish Rhinobatos percellens (Walbaum, 1792) (Elasmobranchii: Rhinobatidae) in Santa Marta, Caribbean colombian. Revista Memoria Fundación La Salle de Ciencias Naturales. 169:21-33.

 

•   Barrera-García, A. Acero, A., Polo-Silva, C y Grijalba-Bendeck. M. 2008. Confirmation of the occurrence of Ophichthus cylindroideus (Ranzani) (Angulliformes: Ophichthidae) in the Colombian Caribbean. Boletín de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras. 37(2):213-219. https://doi.org/10.25268/bimc.invemar.2008.37.2.351

 

•   Polo-Silva C.; Baigorrí-Santacruz A.; Galván-Magaña F.; Grijalba-Bendeck M y A. Sanjuán-Muñoz. 2007. Food habits of thresher shark Alopias superciliosus (Lowe, 1839) in Ecuadorian Pacific. Revista de Biología Marina y Oceanografía 42(1):59-69. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-19572007000100007

 

•       Grijalba Bendeck, M., Polo-Silva, C., & Acero, A. 2007. Una aproximación a la abundancia de los batoideos capturados artesanalmente en Santa Marta (Colombia). Boletín de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras-INVEMAR, 36(1), 251-268.