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