Three-dimensional space use during the bottom phase of southern elephant seal dives

Table 3 Descriptive statistics of the shape parameters of bottom trajectories

	Nb prey encounter event at bottom	Bottom duration (s)	Mean bottom depth (m)	Horizontal width (m)
Min	0.00	54.00	53.59	0.35
Max	28.00	1732.00	847.91	139.37
Median	2.00	451.00	435.78	20.39
Mean	3.37	500.39	441.86	23.20
SE mean	0.13	6.67	5.25	0.45
C I _95% mean	0.25	13.10	10.30	0.88
Variance	13.79	38572.57	23833.89	175.57
SD	3.71	196.40	154.38	13.25
	MC1 vertical width (m)	MC1 horiz. width (m)	Total dispersion (m²)	MC1 dispersion (%)
Min	0.04	36.80	562.55	53.30
Max	383.55	1775.42	401082.90	99.97
Median	26.80	409.09	24073.35	97.20
Mean	48.68	431.17	32638.69	93.75
SE mean	2.16	7.25	1110.50	0.28
C I _95% mean	4.23	14.23	2179.59	0.56
Variance	4023.07	45544.02	1067959847.62	69.62
SD	63.43	213.41	32679.65	8.34
	Vertical width (m)	Bottom speed SD (m s ⁻¹)	Bottom vertical speed SD (m s ⁻¹)
Min	2.10	0.11	0.16
Max	154.18	1.15	2.01
Median	23.21	0.32	0.79
Mean	31.45	0.35	0.85
SE mean	0.80	0.01	0.01
C I _95% mean	1.57	0.01	0.02
Variance	556.80	0.03	0.09
SD	23.60	0.17	0.30

n=866 3D dives. Refer to methods for detailed explanation about what these variables represent and how they were computed

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