T0 · 2026-09-14
ESTABLISHED / STRONGLY EVIDENCED · BASELINE SURVEY
PRN-044 / v0.1 · current
Ecological or niche feedback
Organisms can modify environmental conditions that in turn change subsequent opportunities or outcomes.
Current approved assessment
Strong evidence for the scoped ecological phenomenon; low programme discrimination. Do not transfer maturity to unspecified CGS mechanisms.
Why it sits here
Microbial environmental mediation and plant–soil conditioning supply direct operational counterparts to this existential claim. They do not require a universal feedback law or adaptive benefit. Niche-construction debates concern explanatory organization as well as phenomena; disagreement about theoretical novelty does not negate ecological feedback [S65, S66, S67].
Principal uncertainty
The row specifies no organism, persistence threshold or unique programme prediction. Short-term causal feedback does not establish cross-generation ecological inheritance, subsequent evolution, a general retained-history mechanism or cognition. Environmental alteration and evolutionary response are separable even in advocate presentations of niche construction [S65,S67,S68].
What would change the view?
Consider focused review only after a specific comparator and outcome are nominated, especially if long-term ecological inheritance or a novel prediction is added.
Launch-v1 depth
Baseline-only public wrapper. No deeper evidence artefacts are fabricated.
Approved history
Controlled TERP artefacts remain authoritative. This website is a publication layer.