{
  "$schema": "https://terraevidence.com/evidence-record.schema.json",
  "recordId": "EP-PUB-003",
  "version": "1.0",
  "status": {
    "code": "reviewed-for-stated-scope",
    "label": "Reviewed for stated scope",
    "meaning": "Checked for the stated wording, sources, methods, context, limits, and review period; not universally proven."
  },
  "topic": "Time and resilience",
  "title": "A short-term response is not the same question as resilience.",
  "claim": "A short-term response is not the same question as resilience.",
  "summary": "A rapid change may be real and useful, but resilience asks whether a system resists disturbance, maintains function, recovers, and remains effective across time and relevant conditions.",
  "evidenceSupports": [
    "Define the stress and the function of interest before testing. Preserve the baseline, comparison, timing, magnitude of response, recovery trajectory, site and climate context, and repeated observations across seasons or years when making a resilience claim."
  ],
  "doesNotEstablish": [
    "One favorable observation, one growing season, or a simple before-and-after comparison does not automatically demonstrate durability, causation, reduced dependence, or resilience under a different stress, soil, crop, or climate."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "sourceId": "EP-PUB-003-S1",
      "sourceType": "institutional-guidance",
      "institution": "USDA Agricultural Research Service",
      "title": "Long-Term Agroecosystem Research Network",
      "url": "https://ltar.ars.usda.gov/",
      "relevance": "Uses coordinated measurements across multiple agroecosystems and long-running research sites to connect local and national agricultural and natural-resource questions."
    },
    {
      "sourceId": "EP-PUB-003-S2",
      "sourceType": "institutional-guidance",
      "institution": "USDA Agricultural Research Service",
      "title": "LTAR Common Experiment",
      "url": "https://ltar.ars.usda.gov/research/commonexperiment",
      "relevance": "Coordinates long-term research across diverse working landscapes, supporting comparison across regions and production systems rather than relying on a single short observation."
    }
  ],
  "scope": {
    "reviewedPeriod": "2026-08",
    "applicability": ["Reasoning about resistance, maintained function, recovery, and effectiveness across time and relevant conditions."],
    "limitations": [
      "Does not establish resilience from one favorable observation, one growing season, or a simple before-and-after comparison.",
      "Does not provide personalized fertilizer, lime, amendment, crop, environmental, pest-control, or safety recommendations."
    ],
    "openQuestion": "Which early field indicators can predict later resistance and recovery with useful, independently validated error rates?"
  },
  "useBoundary": "This reviewed record teaches research and diagnostic reasoning. It does not diagnose a plant or soil problem and does not provide personalized fertilizer, lime, amendment, crop, environmental, pest-control, or safety recommendations. Use laboratory documentation, diagnostic services, Extension resources, qualified professionals, applicable labels, and local regulations when a decision requires them.",
  "humanReadableUrl": "https://terraevidence.com/earth-project-reviewed-foundations#ep-pub-003",
  "machineReadableUrl": "https://terraevidence.com/evidence-records/ep-pub-003.json",
  "revision": { "version": "1.0", "publishedDate": "2026-08-17", "lastReviewedPeriod": "2026-08" }
}