Submit a Manuscript to the Journal
Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology
For a Special Issue on
Energetic Landscapes of Marine and Freshwater Animals
Abstract deadline
Manuscript deadline
Special Issue Editor(s)
Armagan Sabetian,
Auckland University of Technology
[email protected]
Energetic Landscapes of Marine and Freshwater Animals
Animal energy landscapes are the spatially and temporally varying energetic costs, gains, and physiological constraints experienced by animals as they move, feed, reproduce, interact with other organisms, and maintain homeostasis in marine and freshwater ecosystems.
The Anthropocene is rapidly reorganising these landscapes. Climate change, habitat degradation, pollution, invasive species, and human coastal development can increase the energetic costs of living while reducing opportunities for energy acquisition. Understanding these changes is essential for predicting animal behaviour, performance, distribution, survival, and population resilience.
Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology invites studies examining how aquatic animals acquire, expend, and allocate energy across natural and human-modified ecosystems. We welcome research on fishes, marine mammals, reptiles, amphibians, crustaceans, molluscs, and other aquatic animals, including field experiments, laboratory studies, comparative analyses, modelling studies, reviews, and methodological advances.
Of particular interest are studies integrating animal behaviour and physiology through biologging, telemetry, accelerometry, respirometry, stable isotope analysis, nutritional analysis, remote sensing, environmental DNA, individual-based modelling, machine learning, and other emerging approaches.
Submission Instructions
Please send a preliminary title, list of authors and a short descriptive paragraph outlining the scope of your proposed manuscript to the Editor-in-Chief, Associate Professor Armagan Sabetian ([email protected]), by 30 November 2026.
The editorial team will then decide which manuscripts to invite to the Special Issue, with authors notified of the decision by 7 December 2026. Note that an invitation to submit does not guarantee acceptance for publication; this will depend on the outcome of the normal peer review process and authors meeting critical time schedules. See Author Instructions for the submission of articles to Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology.
The anticipated manuscript submission deadline is 27 February 2027. Each article will be published individually with final citation details once accepted, and then grouped together on a dedicated Special Issue webpage for this collection.
Please direct any queries to Associate Professor Armagan Sabetian.