Trias Natura and Tritestium: A Distributed Ground-Truth Protocol for Ecological Verification

Two interoperable frameworks for the epistemological grounding of ecological knowledge: Trias Natura and Tritestium, as developed within the u-Kama ecological verification protocol. Trias Natura establishes that ecological truth rests on three irreducible functions — memory, measurement, and verification — and that no ecological claim may be accepted on fewer foundations. Tritestium operationalises the verification function by requiring convergence across three institutionally independent witness classes: human, observational, and laboratory. Together, the two frameworks constitute a distributed ground-truth protocol that resists manipulation through narrative, institutional authority, or isolated data channels.