Societal Choices Impact Biodiversity in
Forest-Agroecosystem Matrix
Opportunities and Challenges of Biodiversity in Human-Dominated Landscapes

Framing the Issues

Ant Diversity and Cultivation in Agroecosystem Gradient

Taro, Gift Economics and Social Exchange of Biodiversity

Concepts of Natural/Social Capital and Methods

Start from a simple input-out model

Analyze societal choices in social system:

A number of scholars apply the concept of capital either in an economic snese or in a non-material perspective in our social life.

1. Natural Capital: biodiversity goods (taro and other crops), services (ants as indicators) and natural resources

2. Human Capital: individual and cognitive investments in resource management

3. Social Capital: collective and structural investments in resource management

Special Thanks for Photo Sources (Yu, 1991. Database of Lanyu): Academia Sinica , Taiwan

4. Cultural Capital: collective and cognitive investments in resource management


Methods: correlation and causality


Framing the Issues

Ant Diversity and Cultivation in Agroecosystem Gradient

Taro, Gift Economics and Social Exchange of Biodiversity

Concepts of Natural/Social Capital and Methods

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