Although the Taiwan red pine will not completely disappear from Taiwan, the loss of large numbers of the trees will set off a chain reaction which will reshuffle all the cards in Taiwan's ecological deck. "Every one who has grown up in this land will have to pay a price," says Professor Kuo Shing-rong of NTU's forestry department.
二葉松雖不會就此在台灣大地上銷聲匿跡，但大批二葉松消失，對台灣將是一次生態崩盤，整個生態會重新洗牌，「生長在這片土地上的人都要付出代價」，台大森林系教授郭幸榮從生態的角度評估。