Spatial Ecology of the Population of Reef Manta Rays, Mobula alfredi (Krefft, 1868), in New Caledonia Using Satellite Telemetry 1–Horizontal Behaviour
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
DearAuthor
Necessary corrections are indicated in the sticky notes in the text. In addition, some references in the manuscript need to be corrected. Becuse, It is incorrect to give some citations that are not sent to a journal.
Best wishes
Comments for author File: 
Comments.pdf
Author Response
Dear reviewer,
Thank you for careful reading. Necessary corrections pointed out in the sticky notes were all addressed accordingly, see below (following the line numbering of the original version):
- line 3: the species name was changed to lowercase and italic, brackets were removed, and the reference was added.
- line 11: the format of the word was changed to not bold
- line 15: the word 'reef' was added
- line 280: the gender was precised
- line 423, line 495: the date of the reference was moved following the right format
- line 450, line 583: the page numbers were added to the reference
- line 481: the reference was updated
- line 520: This reference follows the format as instructed in the "instruction for authors" section of the journal Fishes under the "Unpublished materials intended for publication" category :
"Unpublished materials intended for publication:
4. Author 1, A.B.; Author 2, C. Title of Unpublished Work (optional). Correspondence Affiliation, City, State, Country. year, status (manuscript in preparation; to be submitted)."
- line 596: The article was just submitted and status was changed to "in press" and the name of the journal stated as requested.
Reviewer 2 Report
The manuscript deals with a significant subject. The overall performance is of high quality. The authors confidently present their results, deriving from reliable data analysis. On this basis, the MS can be published without objections. Only minor comments have been noted, as they can be traced in the attached file.
Comments for author File: Comments.pdf
Author Response
Dear reviewer,
We thank you for your kind words and careful reading of our work. We addressed all your comments and suggestions accordingly. See below our response to each comments (following the line numbering of the original version):
- line 204 to 228: This is a fair suggestion. We thus moved and arranged the part describing the movement patterns into the "M&M" section. Results associated with the movement patterns were left in the "Results" section as requested.
- line 267: Good point. The title of the paragraph was changed from "Sex" to "Gender" as suggested.
