Movement Ecology and Conservation of Large Marine Fishes (and Sharks)

Dear Colleagues,

I warmly invite you to submit your work to this Special Issue on the movement ecology of large pelagics. The focus of this collection is to highlight the emerging science and unconventional findings on movement ecology that you might have found difficult to publishing elsewhere.

Movement ecology should not merely describe where an animal has gone or what it is inferred to have done in a particular place and time. It is important to go beyond individual movement histories and probe the underlying mechanisms and motivations underpinning why animals might move as a group of individuals or a cohort. We, therefore, encourage research that employs novel experiment designs, analytical techniques, and theoretical investigations to provide our community with new ideas to test in the lab and in the field.

Equally important is the need for movement science to inform management practices and conservation. The synthesis of multi-disciplinary data from genomics, biochemistry, and fishery statistics with individual tracking is the most productive approach to deliver the required holistic information for managers and decision makers. One often-overlooked aspect is the abundance of historic data sets, logbook records, and ever-growing remote sensing data. As scientists, we can be the master tapestry makers of this vast array of scientific data. If artificial intelligence can aid us in achieving this type of synthesis, templates and approaches should be shared to seed further applications.

This Special Issue is about the bigger picture and future possibilities, so we encourage you to let your imagination fly and ground it with scientific discoveries.

Dr. Chi-Hin Lam
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Fishes is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• navigation
• tagging
• sensing
• fisheries
• energetics
• artificial intelligence
• ocean circulation
• currents
• circadian rhythm