Separate periphyton assembly choices from attachment and stress phenotypes #1867

Finding

CommunityMech:000130. Growth-balanced grouping is a construction choice, not demonstrated NICHE_PARTITIONING. Colonization time points are not evidence that one phototroph facilitates another. Remove the grouping workflow node; preserve measured pioneer attachment, AB structural development and mature-community establishment as untyped process outcomes with diatom-only scope where appropriate. Preserve the source-attributed Sphingomonas EPS attachment role, distinguishing conditioning from a demonstrated effect size or confirmed persistence of that bacterium. Stress/structure responses are not niche partitioning; retain generally stable PSII with the reported high-herbicide day18 exception, and leave functional redundancy hypothetical. Do not restore workflow arrows.

Evidence And Scope

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35869094/
Whole three records and independently retrieved primary abstract/main bodies, Methods, embedded captions and tables were read. No separate supplements, original figure pixels or raw datasets were audited. Source-read limits and exact artifact hashes will accompany batch111.

Fresh all-state title/body dedup matched #850/#622/#1547; all bodies and related #529/#1091 were read. Local search included hidden and ignored files in its recorded scope. PR comments and all historical local reports were not exhaustively searched.

Lifecycle

Address in dependent batch111; close only after protected-main merge. Source-based self-adversarial review, not independent approval. No new topology, paid Edison job or experimental protocol is proposed.