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The relationship between depth (a proxy predictor) and maximum bottom temperature (a potentially causal predictor) differs dramatically between the four subareas, probably causing depth to be a poor predictor of distributions when used in models extrapolated between areas. Note the different scale of the y-axes on each figure.
