The question says it all. I’ve google-searched, but can find any explanation offered for why Holling’s disc equation is called a ‘disc’ equation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_response
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Quoting from http://www.tiem.utk.edu/~gross/bioed/bealsmodules/holling.html:
“Holling's disk equation, named after experiments he performed in which a blindfolded assistant picked up sandpaper disks from a table, describes the type II functional response.”
Holling's original article about this from 1959 is officially here, behind a paywall, but Google also found another pdf.
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