Inferred halo occupation number for galaxies in the low-z and high-z DESI ELG samples. The solid (dashed) lines show the median of our model after marginalisation over all the SHAMe-SF parameters, whereas shaded regions (small and large circles) show the 1σ and 2σ regions for all galaxies (centrals). We compare the measured occupation distributions in our two DESI ELG mocks. DESI ELGs have similar mean halo masses as our mock DESI catalogues (DESI-TNG and DESI-SAM), but the abundance of satellites is systematically lower. We add as a reference the dotted grey line, indicating an abundance of ⟨N⟩ = 1.