It's not just river fish that are threatened by jeeps. Liu Chi-chuan, a professor of forestry at National Pingtung Polytechnic Institute, says that the mud, sand and gravel on beaches are favored by small amphibians, arthropods and micro-organisms, and when jeeps drive by, they compress the earth, which forces animals to come to the surface and confront their predators, and crushes plants and their underground root systems.
不只是河川魚類受到吉普車威脅，屏東技術學院森林系教授劉吉川說，泥灘、沙地、礫石灘中的土石空隙是許多兩棲、節肢動物和微小生物的家，吉普車開過會將土石的密度壓實，首先迫使這些生物必須走到地面，面臨天敵威脅。