Professor Chen Yu-feng of Providence University, who has been studying Taiwan's flora for many years, explains that false cypress forests often grew where river erosion created large areas of debris from rockslides.
研究台灣植被多年的靜宜大學教授陳玉峰歸納，台灣檜木林發達處，常在河川向源侵蝕的崩塌面。