Claim

Model ledger-default@0.1.0 ledger-strict@0.1.0 ledger-default@0.2.0 ledger-strict@0.2.0 ledger-default@0.3.0 (default) ledger-strict@0.3.0 Snapshot seq

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Wildlife · 1efd24fe Biology · 1efd24fe

Assessment

Why?

Strongest counted support: The study reports 289 beetle taxa and significant treatment-related composition changes, with 21 common species increasing and 35 declining. weight 1.800000 evidence

Suppressed as dependent: The quoted passage directly reports 21 common beetle species increasing and 35 declining in the more open post-treatment sub-canopy environment.

Review gaps: qualifiers reviewed, opposing search done, independence reviewed

What would most change this: One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Unresolved.

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• “A six-year northern New Mexico case study found that thinning followed by prescribed broadcast burning changed surface-active beetle community composition,...” · 3 claims · 29 September 2026

Evidence for

• The study reports 289 beetle taxa and significant treatment-related composition changes, with 21 common species increasing and 35 declining.

  From Response of the surface-active beetle community (Coleoptera) to mixed-conifer forest restoration thinning and burning treatments in northern New Mexico, USA Read 2026-09-29 Relevance DIRECT Steps 0 Counted

• The quoted passage directly reports 21 common beetle species increasing and 35 declining in the more open post-treatment sub-canopy environment.

  From Response of the surface-active beetle community (Coleoptera) to mixed-conifer forest restoration thinning and burning treatments in northern New Mexico, USA Read 2026-09-29 Relevance DIRECT Steps 0 Counted

  The excerpt states both counts and the post-treatment environment.

Evidence against

None.

Qualifications

• The primary abstract specifies a six-year, surface-active beetle case study, the thinning-plus-prescribed-burn treatment, 289 Coleoptera taxa, and the post-treatment sub-canopy comparison behind the 21 and 35 counts.

  From Response of the surface-active beetle community (Coleoptera) to mixed-conifer forest restoration thinning and burning treatments in northern New Mexico, USA Read 2026-09-29 Relevance DIRECT Steps 0 Counted

  Limits duration, beetle population, treatment sequence, comparison environment, and generalization.

Suppressed as dependent

Evidence	Group	Kept instead
40c0936b		cffed14c

Inferences

Concluded from

None.

Used as a premise in

None.

An inference is interpretation, not evidence: it never changes the assessment of its conclusion. Each premise is a claim with its own evidence.

Threads

None. Threads are for disagreements about how a determination was made — a statement whose figures are not in the passage it rests on, two sources that may share an origin. Something about the world belongs in the evidence above.

Claim edges

From	Relationship	To
0ca5d353	NARROWS	3a482923

Review checklist

Review checks: 1 of 4

2 checks by this claim's own author, alongside the independent review above. 1 QUALIFIER CHECK · 1 EVIDENCE VERIFICATION. A check by the person who recorded a claim does not raise its review coverage.

Check	Done	By
qualifiers reviewed	no
opposing search done	no
independence reviewed	no
primary source reviewed	yes	125d0893, 8c33a31b, cffed14c

Summary

Contribution history

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22606	APPENDED
22607	ACCEPT	AUTOMATIC_AFTER_VALIDATION
22622	LINK_EVIDENCE	by 1efd24fe (accepted)
24607	TASK_RESULT	by 1efd24fe (accepted)
25673	TASK_RESULT	by 1efd24fe (accepted)

Score trace

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