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I wonder why they are using the term "consumer satiation hypothesis" over the more common "predator satiation". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predator_satiatio

• QuercusMax 3y ago
  Because most people don't consider squirrels predators and acorns prey, I'd assume.
  • ortusdux 3y ago
    Predation is a commonly used term in horticulture, especially in situations like this. From what I can glean, it is considered predation if the plant's lifecycle is interrupted. For example, cows would not be considered predators, but goats would be (browsing vs grazing animals). See also Seed Predation - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed_predation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed_predation This writeup is a summary of the paper "Global patterns in the predator satiation effect of masting: A meta-analysis". This paper was published over a year and a half ago, and does not include the term "consumer satiation hypothesis". When I google "consumer satiation hypothesis", I get 6 results, most of which are this post and similar writeups from the last few days. I guess what I'm saying is that it looks like someone else is introducing a newly named or obscure hypothesis, and then backing it up with a paper that does not use that term, and instead only uses the already extant and well established hypothesis.
• hinkley 3y ago
  Because we don't consider vegetarians to be predators.
  • lainga 3y ago
    In some food-chain dynamic models, the leaf-browsing gazelle and the mosquito are both "micropredators", as in they consume part of the prey organism without killing it. It's an interesting framing.