Cod Collapse Table 1

Table 1. Hypotheses that address geographic patterns in populations, their mean abundance, and their year-class variability.

Hypothesis Pattern Mean Abundance Year Class Variability

Migration Triangle (Harden Jones 1968) X

Match-Mismatch (Cushing 1973) X X X

Stable Ocean (Lasker 1978) X

Encounter Rate (Rothschild and Osborn 1988) X

Member-Vagrant (Sinclair and Illes 1989) X X X

Hypothesis	Pattern	Mean Abundance	Year Class Variability
Migration Triangle (Harden Jones 1968)	X
Match-Mismatch (Cushing 1973)	X	X	X
Stable Ocean (Lasker 1978)			X
Encounter Rate (Rothschild and Osborn 1988)		X
Member-Vagrant (Sinclair and Illes 1989)	X	X	X

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