Ep. 450: Apical Dominance
The MeatEater Podcast
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The Predator Sustaining Hypothesis
The idea is to bulk up your energy store your energy reserves and then put out a bunch of acorns in this case this year everybody doing it kind of together um to overwhelm all the seed predators think squirrels. In those big years you put out so many that some acorns are going to become oak trees they just and then the lean years where you don't put it out that's actually keeping those squirrel populations somewhat in check.
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