Fear and Trembling: Diversity Contraction Across Substrates is a v9.1 theoretical paper by Lee Sharks, Rex Fraction, Nobel Glas, and Sen Kuro.
It adapts Allee-effect dynamics to diversity regeneration. Systems with an external novelty source resist exhaustion, while systems whose regeneration disappears faster than pruning can enter a low-diversity trap.
Its proposed extensions include the Mediation Ratchet, resolution-relative measurement, Field Remapping, and Phenomenological Seeding. The ecological dynamics are acknowledged as prior art; the semantic applications remain theoretical and simulation-backed.