气候变化可能延迟秋叶变色 [视频]

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又到了那个时候:是时候去徒步旅行,欣赏绚丽的秋叶了。或者,如果你像我一样住在旅游小镇,是时候看看“赏叶者”漫无目的地驾驶汽车穿梭于乡间,寻找一片令人难以置信的红色枫树或金色橡树林。如果气候变化继续按照目前的趋势发展,那么你可能需要将未来日历上标记的最佳散步或骑行日稍微推迟一些。

树木使用多种线索来决定何时落叶,但两个主要信号是日照时间和温度。阳光是主要因素;当树木感觉到光照时间减少时,它们会减少叶片中的光合作用。绿色叶绿素褪色,色彩显现。气候变化对日照时间没有影响,但对温度有影响。如果秋季白天温暖,树木往往会延迟颜色变化,如果秋季白天凉爽,它们往往会加快速度。如果全球气温普遍升高,你可能需要晚几天散步。事实上,马萨诸塞州官员已经确定,近几十年平均峰值颜色变化已经推迟了大约三天。

气候变化也可能改变降水,这也会影响颜色。降雨量似乎不是一个因素,但更多阴天会降低日照水平,这往往会降低叶片颜色的强度。


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有关更多详细信息,请查看我们的合作伙伴 Accuweather.com 制作的这段视频。如果你今年秋天开车经过我的小镇,请挥手致意,但请注意树木(我的意思是,道路)。

Mark Fischetti has been a senior editor at 大众科学 for 17 years and has covered sustainability issues, including climate, weather, environment, energy, food, water, biodiversity, population, and more. He assigns and edits feature articles, commentaries and news by journalists and scientists and also writes in those formats. He edits History, the magazine's department looking at science advances throughout time. He was founding managing editor of two spinoff magazines: 大众科学 Mind and 大众科学 Earth 3.0. His 2001 freelance article for the magazine, "Drowning New Orleans," predicted the widespread disaster that a storm like Hurricane Katrina would impose on the city. His video What Happens to Your Body after You Die?, has more than 12 million views on YouTube. Fischetti has written freelance articles for the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian, Technology Review, Fast Company, and many others. He co-authored the book Weaving the Web with Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, which tells the real story of how the Web was created. He also co-authored The New Killer Diseases with microbiologist Elinor Levy. Fischetti is a former managing editor of IEEE Spectrum Magazine and of Family Business Magazine. He has a physics degree and has twice served as the Attaway Fellow in Civic Culture at Centenary College of Louisiana, which awarded him an honorary doctorate. In 2021 he received the American Geophysical Union's Robert C. Cowen Award for Sustained Achievement in Science Journalism, which celebrates a career of outstanding reporting on the Earth and space sciences. He has appeared on NBC's Meet the Press, CNN, the History Channel, NPR News and many news radio stations. Follow Fischetti on X (formerly Twitter) @markfischetti

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