Moving soil, moving plants
Robinson, B.S., Bennie, J. Inger, R., Early, R. & Gaston, K.J. 2018. Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste: anthropogenic dispersal of plants via garden and construction soil. Journal…
Read moreThrowing light on communities
Sanders, D. & Gaston, K.J. 2018. How ecological communities respond to artificial light at night. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology, in press [online early]. Many…
Read moreEcological impacts of light from vehicles
Gaston, K.J. & Holt, L.A. 2018. Nature, extent and ecological implications of nighttime light from road vehicles. Journal of Applied Ecology, in press [online early view]. 1. The erosion of…
Read moreCacti losing darkness
Correa-Cano, M.E., Goettsch, B., Duffy, J.P., Bennie, J., Inger, R. & Gaston, K.J. 2018. Erosion of natural darkness in the geographic ranges of cacti. Scientific Reports 8, 4347. Naturally dark…
Read moreProviding for wildlife
Cox, D.T.C. & Gaston, K.J. 2018. Human-nature interactions and the consequences and drivers of provisioning wildlife. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 373, 20170092. Many human populations are undergoing…
Read moreOutdoor lighting continues increase
Kyba, C.C.M., Kuester, T., Sánchez de Miguel, S., Baugh, K., Jechow, A., Hölker, F., Bennie, J., Elvidge, C.D., Gaston, K.J. & Guanter, L. 2017. Artificially lit surface of Earth at…
Read moreTime and time again
Gaston, K.J., Davies, T.W., Nedelec, S.L. & Holt, L.A. 2017. Impacts of artificial light at night on biological timings. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 48, 49-68. The use…
Read moreA dose of gardening
Soga, M., Gaston, K.J. & Yamaura, Y. 2017. Gardening is beneficial for health: a meta-analysis. Preventive Medicine Reports 5, 92-99. [Image from Shutterstock] There is increasing evidence that gardening provides…
Read moreTracking garden birds
Cox, D.T.C., Inger, R., Hancock, S., Anderson, K. & Gaston, K.J. 2016. Movement of feeder-using songbirds: the influence of urban features. Scientific Reports 6, 37669. [Image from Shutterstock] Private gardens…
Read more3D vegetation structure measured from a plane
Hancock, S., Anderson, K., Disney, M. & Gaston, K.J. 2017. Measurement of fine-spatial-resolution 3D vegetation structure with airborne waveform lidar: Calibration and validation with voxelised terrestrial lidar. Remote Sensing of…
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