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植物也受噪声影响

You can almost hear the law of unintended

consequences

at

work

among

the

flora

and

fauna

ofnorthwestern

New

Mexico.

你几乎不敢相 信新墨西哥州西北动植物研究工作带来意想不到

的结果。

Thousands

of

natural

gas

wells

dot

the

landscape

there,

along

with

the compressors that getthe gaseous fuel ready to travel through pipelines.

The

compressor

rumble

is

constant,

andseems

to

be

attracting

black-chinned hummingbirds, according to a new experiment. Thefindings

appeared this week in the journalProceedings of the Royal Society B.

< br>成千

上万的天然气井点缀在那儿的风景中

通过燃料气体压缩机而穿越管

道输送。

根

据

一

项

新

的

实

验

压

缩

机

恒

定

的

< br>隆

隆

声

似

乎

能

吸

引

一

种

black- chinned

蜂鸟。

这些发现刊登在本周的皇家社会研究月刊。

Researchers set up test flower beds and tracked bird landings. They

found

that

thehummingbirds

were

five

times

more

likely

to

visit

noisy

areas. Why? Perhaps because thewestern scrub jay tends to avoid noise.

And western scrub jays eat baby hummingbirds. Thesituation is good for

wildflowers that are pollinated by the hummingbirds.

研咳嗽蓖

ü

建立花圃

并跟踪测试鸟类降落次数。

他们发现蜂鸟有超过五倍可能性去 喧闹的地区这是为什么

?

或许

是因为西 方矮树松鸦不喜欢噪音，而西方矮树松鸦喜欢吃蜂鸟幼鸟。

这样由蜂鸟授粉的野花在闹市区开的很好。

But the absence of jays seems to be bad for other plants. For example,

the

pinon

pine

relieson

scrub

jaysto

spread

its

seeds.

As

a

result,

pine

seedlings were four times less abundant atnoisy sites than quiet ones.

但缺

乏松鸦似乎对其他植物不利。

例如

矮松树依赖松鸦来传播种子。

结果

喧闹地点松幼苗清静地儿减少四倍。

Pinon seedlings take decades to become pinon pines, a critical habitat

for hundreds of speciesin the western U.S. So the forest of the future may

never

take

root.

Darn

noisy

neighb ors.

矮松树苗要花上几十年的时间成

为松树

而因为讨厌嘈杂的邻居，

在美国西部的森林中作为数 百种关键

物种栖息地的矮松树苗可能永远不会生根。

For

example,

some

kinds

of

soil

bacteria

take

nitrogen

from

the

air

and make it into a form thatplants can use. The plants hold the nitrogen in

their

roots.

Legumes

are

especially

good

at

thisnitrogen-fixing.

Then

any

crops that share the same space as the legumes can get the nitrogenas the

roots decompose.

例如，某些类型的土壤细菌从空气中吸收氮并将其转

化成为一种植物能够 利用的形式。

这类植物将氮保存到根部，豆类尤其擅长于这样固氮。

这样共享土壤的任何作物，例如豆 类，可以在根部分解时获得这

些氮。

Beans and potatoes can also share territory well because their roots

reach different levels inthe soil. Deep-rooted vegetables get nutrients and

moisture from lower down in the soil, sothey do not compete with plants

with shallower roots.

菜豆和马铃薯也能很好地分享领土，

因为它们的根

在土壤中的深度不同。

深根类蔬菜从更深的土壤中获得养 分和水分，因此它们不会与浅

根植物竞争。

But some plants placed together may harm each other's development.

For

example,

tomatoesdo

not

like

wet

soil

but

watercress

does,

so

you

would probably want to keep them separa ted.

但有些植物放到一块可能

会损害各自的发展。

例如，西红柿不 喜欢潮湿的土壤，但豆瓣菜却喜欢潮湿的土壤，

所以你可能需要将它们分开。

Some

kinds

of

produce

should

be

kept

apart

even

after

being

harvested.

This

is

because

ofethylene

gas.

Ethylene

is

a

plant

hormone

that can cause some foods to ripen too release ethylene gas.

Apricots,

melons

and

tomatoes

also

release

a

lot

of

vegetable

are

easily

affected

by

ethylene,

including

asparagus,

broccoli,