EP-PUB-001 · Diagnostic reasoning
Symptoms are clues, not diagnoses.
Applicability: Research and diagnostic reasoning about visible plant symptoms.
Sources: Penn State Extension; UC Statewide IPM
Source type: Institutional guidance
Reviewed evidence index
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Browse every published Earth Project evidence record by topic, stated applicability, source organization, and source type. Each record is reviewed for its stated scope—not universally proven.
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EP-PUB-002 · Measurement
No single measurement defines soil health.
Applicability: Reasoning about soil-health indicators in the soil, climate, land use, and management system being studied.
Sources: USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
Source type: Institutional guidance
EP-PUB-003 · Time and resilience
A short-term response is not the same question as resilience.
Applicability: Reasoning about resistance, maintained function, recovery, and effectiveness across time and relevant conditions.
Sources: USDA Agricultural Research Service
Source type: Institutional guidance
EP-PUB-004 · Method and context
Keep the number attached to what produced it.
Applicability: Preserving, transcribing, comparing, or machine-processing soil-test results while retaining their laboratory and sample context.
Sources: University of Minnesota Soil Testing Laboratory; University of Minnesota Extension
Source type: Institutional guidance
EP-PUB-005 · Causal reasoning
A change after treatment is not proof of causation.
Applicability: Evaluating causal claims about soil amendments, products, practices, or management changes when the available evidence is a field observation, demonstration, or before-and-after comparison.
Sources: University of Minnesota Extension; Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education; National Institute of Standards and Technology
Source type: Institutional guidance
EP-PUB-006 · Statistical interpretation
Statistical significance is not practical importance.
Applicability: Interpreting p-values, significance labels, and threshold-based claims in soil, plant, agricultural, and related experimental research.
Sources: American Statistical Association; National Institute of Standards and Technology
Source types: Primary publication; institutional guidance
EP-PUB-007 · External validity
A result from one setting is not automatically transferable.
Applicability: Evaluating whether soil, plant, garden, and agricultural findings can be applied beyond the settings in which they were observed.
Sources: University of Minnesota Extension; United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service
Source type: Institutional guidance
EP-PUB-008 · Mechanistic reasoning
A plausible mechanism is not a demonstrated outcome.
Applicability: Evaluating mechanism-based claims about soil amendments, products, practices, organisms, and biological or chemical processes.
Sources: United States Environmental Protection Agency
Source type: Institutional guidance
EP-PUB-009 · Indicator validity
An indicator is not automatically the outcome it represents.
Applicability: Evaluating claims that use soil, plant, biological, chemical, visual, or intermediate measurements as indicators of a broader function or outcome.
Sources: United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service; United States Environmental Protection Agency; FDA-NIH Biomarker Working Group
Source type: Institutional guidance
EP-PUB-010 · Forecast validation
A leading indicator is not a forecast until its prediction is validated.
Applicability: Evaluating claims that plant water potential, stomatal conductance, soil moisture, or another early soil or plant signal predicts a later agricultural, ecological, or garden outcome.
Sources: United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service; Journal of Experimental Botany
Source types: Primary study; peer-reviewed review
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