Replacing black asphalt with vegetation raises rooftop albedo, and evapotranspiration can add humidity to an urban atmosphere; both help mitigate heat-island effect.

用植物代替黑沥青能增加屋顶漫反射系数，蒸散能增加城市大气层的湿度；二者都有助于缓和热导效应。

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The net effect was a shortening of the growing season by about one month for steppe plants and three weeks for meadow vegetation.

网效应缩短了植被的生长期，在草原缩短了近1个月，而在牧场则缩短了3周。

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Slope bioengineering has significant protective effect on ecology environment, yet vegetation has complex effect on the stability of slope, it plays both positive and negative roles.

植被护坡在改善生态环境方面的作用是显著的，但植被对坡体稳定性的影响却很复杂，积极与消极的作用共存。

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Then, of course, there's the small issue of gravity, and the effect it will have on growing vegetation, but we're thinking, at least there'd be fewer bruised apples.

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The same is true if we limit the effect to the number of believers whose homes display candles, lights, symbols, Scandinavian wildlife and vegetation and whatever else the spirit moves them to exhibit.

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