研究：全球变暖致春季过早来临_大学英语阅读

研究：全球变暖致春季过早来临

　　Spring arrived incredibly early this year, according to a botanist who monitors the blooming patterns of flowers.

　　古人云春江水暖鸭先知，但今年的春季似乎来得特别早，植物学家在观测研究了鲜花盛开的情况后得出了这一结论。

　　Cristol Fleming says she believes the appearance of flowers up to two months early is down to the changes created by global warming.

　　植物学家Cristol Fleming认为，由于温室效应全球变暖，导致了一些植物开花的时间提早了将近两个月之多。

　　Experts have started calling the shift in the times that plants bloom season creep and using decades of research have charted how much earlier it is happening.

　　专家学者们开始讲类似的植物提前现象称为季节前移，他们在分析了近几十年来的研究所得出的结果表明了这种情况的确正在发生。

　　The leaves of the English oak are appearing sooner, meaning that winter moths are coming out earlier and, because the birds that eat them are still flying north, they have already turned from caterpillars and into moths.

　　橡树枝叶发芽的时间越来越早，这意味了冬蛾出现的时间也更早，因为专吃冬蛾还在向北迁徙中，这使得该类物种顺利地由毛毛虫变成蛾。

　　Their research is matched by that of researchers in Korea tracking cherry blossom and the U.S., which records its findings at the Smithsonian Institutions National Herbarium every year.