Fine-scale behaviour of the Lusitanian toadfish assessed in situ with the AccelTag

Table 2 Mean number of events and time of activity of the tagged toadfish according to environmental factors

	Attack			Burrowing			Re-burrowing			Activity
	N	Mean	SD	N	Mean	SD	N	Mean	SD	Minute	Mean	SD
Group 1
ST	362	0.27	0.73	162	0.12	0.47	204	0.15	0.61	2708.4	2.00	4.29
NT	598	0.27	0.66	40	0.02	0.14	78	0.04	0.25	2631.9	1.21	1.78
LT	493	0.27	0.69	88	0.05	0.27	140	0.08	0.42	2564.1	1.44	2.54
HT	467	0.27	0.68	114	0.06	0.34	142	0.08	0.45	2776.2	1.58	3.44
Da	201	0.13	0.45	98	0.06	0.29	118	0.08	0.41	1264.8	0.79	1.55
Ni	759	0.40	0.81	104	0.05	0.33	164	0.09	0.45	4074.5	0.11	3.73
Group 2
ST	143	0.17	0.49	38	0.05	0.32	45	0.05	0.34	1089.6	1.31	2.09
NT	522	0.18	0.54	82	0.03	0.25	97	0.03	0.25	4594.2	1.59	2.85
LT	267	0.15	0.45	50	0.03	0.28	60	0.03	0.25	2810.7	1.56	3.05
HT	398	0.21	0.59	70	0.04	0.25	82	0.04	0.29	2873.1	1.50	2.32
Da	190	0.11	0.41	51	0.03	0.19	74	0.04	0.24	1764.9	1.04	2.02
Ni	475	0.24	0.60	69	0.03	0.32	68	0.03	0.29	3918.9	1.94	3.10
Total
ST	505	0.22	0.61	200	0.09	0.40	249	0.10	0.48	3798.0	1.66	3.19
NT	1120	0.23	0.60	122	0.03	0.20	175	0.05	0.25	7226.1	1.40	2.32
LT	760	0.21	0.57	138	0.04	0.28	200	0.06	0.34	5374.8	1.50	2.80
HT	865	0.24	0.64	184	0.05	0.30	224	0.06	0.37	4649.3	1.54	2.88
Da	391	0.12	0.43	139	0.05	0.24	192	0.06	0.33	3029.7	0.92	1.79
Ni	1234	0.32	0.71	143	0.04	0.33	232	0.06	0.37	7993.4	1.03	3.42

N number of events (attacks, burrowings and re-burrowings) and mean time of activity (minutes) per hour, SD standard deviation, ST spring tides, NT neap tide, LT low tide, HT high tide, Da day, Ni night

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