Tsung Pei-chih emphasizes that none of the plants native to Menghuan Lake have disappeared as a result of this interference, but allowing natural processes to turn the lake into dry land would prompt a shift from biodiversity to monoculture. It would be bad for the ecological balance.
叢培芝強調，夢幻湖區的原生植物，並未因外力移除而造成物種消失，但如果放任自然演替、讓夢幻湖陸化，物種反而會從多樣性變成單純化，未必有利於生態平衡。