KEVIN J GASTON

Professor of Biodiversity & Conservation at University of Exeter

Pea aphids and artificial light

By editor March 16, 2015 Animals, Artificial lighting, Ecolight, Kevin Gaston, Mesocosm experiment, Plants

Bennie, J., Davies, T.W, Cruse, D., Inger, R. & Gaston, K.J (2015) Cascading effects of artificial light at night: resource-mediated control of herbivores in a grassland ecosystem. Philosophical Transactions of…

The biological impacts of artificial light at night: the research challenge

By editor March 16, 2015 Animals, Artificial lighting, Ecolight, Macroecological, Skyglow, Spectral

Gaston, K. J., Visser, M. E., & Hölker, F. (2015). The biological impacts of artificial light at night: the research challenge. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0133 A piece setting…

Effects of artificial night-time light

By editor November 18, 2014 Animals, Ecolight, Humans, Kevin Gaston, Macroecological, Mitigation, Spectral, Temporal

Gaston, K. J., Duffy, J. P., Gaston, S., Bennie, J. & Davies, T. W. (2014) Human alteration of natural light cycles: causes and ecological consequences. Oecologia 176, 917–931. Artificial light…

Marine artificial light

By editor November 18, 2014 Animals, Artificial lighting, Ecolight, Kevin Gaston, Macroecological, Mitigation, Satellite data

Davies, T. W., Duffy, J. P., Bennie, J. & Gaston, K. J. (2014) The nature, extent and ecological consequences of marine light pollution. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 12(6),…

Flickering of the light

By admin June 13, 2014 Animals, Artificial lighting, Ecolight, Humans, Kevin Gaston, Street lighting, Temporal

Inger, R., Bennie, J., Davies, T.W. & Gaston, K.J. 2014. Potential biological and ecological effects of flickering artificial light. PLoS One 9, e98631. Organisms have evolved under stable natural lighting…

Demographic effects of artificial nighttime lighting on animal populations

By editor March 21, 2014 Animals, Artificial lighting, Ecolight, Humans

Gaston, Kevin J., and Jonathan Bennie. “Demographic effects of artificial nighttime lighting on animal populations.” Environmental Reviews 22.4 (2014): 323-330. Artificial lighting, especially but not exclusively through street lights, has…

Biogeography of time partitioning in mammals

By editor October 27, 2013 Animals, Ecolight, Temporal

Bennie, J. J., Duffy, J. P., Inger, R., & Gaston, K. J. (2014). Biogeography of time partitioning in mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(38), 13727-13732. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1216063110…

Lighting and vision

By admin June 10, 2013 Animals, Artificial lighting, Ecolight, Kevin Gaston, Spectral, Street lighting

Davies, T.W., Bennie, J., Inger, R., Hempel de Ibarra, N. & Gaston, K.J. 2013. Artificial light pollution: are shifting spectral signatures changing the balance of species interactions? Global Change Biology 19, 1417-1423.…

The ecological impacts of nighttime light pollution: a mechanistic appraisal

By editor April 8, 2013 Animals, Artificial lighting, Ecolight, Humans, Plants, Spectral, Temporal

Gaston, K.J., Bennie, J, Davies, T.W., Hopkins, J. (2013) The ecological impacts of nighttime light pollution: a mechanistic appraisal. Biological Reviews 88 912–927 doi: 10.1111/brv.12036 The ecological impacts of nighttime…

Street lighting changes communities

By admin September 16, 2012 Animals, Artificial lighting, Ecolight, Kevin Gaston, Street lighting

Davies, T.W., Bennie, J. & Gaston, K.J. 2012. Street lighting changes the composition of invertebrate communities. Biology Letters 8, 764-767. Artificial lighting has been used to illuminate the nocturnal environment for centuries…