KEVIN J GASTON

Professor of Biodiversity & Conservation at University of Exeter

Streetlighting impacts on vegetation

By admin June 9, 2017 Artificial lighting, Ecolight, Field experiment, Kevin Gaston, Mitigation, Plants, Street lighting

Bennie, J., Davies, T.W., Cruse, D., Bell, F. & Gaston, K.J. 2018. Artificial light at night alters grassland vegetation species composition and phenology. Journal of Applied Ecology 15, 442-450. 1.…

Lighting impacts on invertebrates

By admin February 1, 2017 Animals, Artificial lighting, Field experiment, Kevin Gaston, Mitigation, Street lighting

Davies, T.W., Bennie, J., Cruse, D., Blumgart, D., Inger, R. & Gaston, K.J. 2017. Multiple night-time light-emitting diode lighting strategies impact grassland invertebrate assemblages. Global Change Biology, in press. White…

Light pollution in Marine Protected Areas

By editor July 5, 2015 Animals, Artificial lighting, Ecolight, Kevin Gaston, Macroecological, Mitigation, Satellite data

Davies, T.W., Duffy, J.P., Bennie, J. & Gaston, K.J. (2015) Stemming the tide of light pollution encroaching into Marine Protected Areas. Conservation Letters, DOI: 10.1111/conl.12191. Many marine ecosystems are shaped…

Streetlights and bat conservation

By editor July 5, 2015 Animals, Artificial lighting, Ecolight, Fine scale measurement of lighting, Kevin Gaston, Mitigation, Street lighting, Temporal

Day, J., Baker, J., Schofield, H., Mathews, F. & Gaston, K.J. (2015) Part-night lighting: implications for bat conservation. Animal Conservation, DOI: 10.1111/acv.12200. Artificial nighttime lighting has many effects on biodiversity.…

Artificial light in Protected Areas

By editor July 5, 2015 Artificial lighting, Ecolight, Kevin Gaston, Macroecological, Mitigation, Satellite data, Skyglow

Gaston, K.J., Duffy, J.P. & Bennie, J. (2015) Quantifying the erosion of natural darkness in the global protected area system. Conservation Biology 29(4), 1132-41. The nighttime light environment of much…

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),…

Brightening and darkening of Europe

By admin June 13, 2014 Artificial lighting, Ecolight, Kevin Gaston, Macroecological, Mitigation, Satellite data

Bennie, J., Davies, T., Duffy, J., Inger, R. & Gaston, K.J. 2014. Contrasting trends in light pollution across Europe. Scientific Reports 4, 3789. Since the 1970s nighttime satellite images of…

Green light for efficiency

By admin June 10, 2013 Artificial lighting, Ecolight, Humans, Kevin Gaston, Mitigation, Street lighting

Gaston, K.J. 2013. A green light for efficiency. Nature 497, 560-561. A Comment piece arguing that efforts to improve street lights are providing a rare opportunity to cut both financial and environmental…

Reducing the impacts of nighttime lighting

By admin December 8, 2012 Artificial lighting, Ecolight, Kevin Gaston, Macroecological, Mitigation, Skyglow, Spectral, Street lighting

Gaston, K.J., Davies, T.W., Bennie, J. & Hopkins, J. 2013. Reducing the ecological consequences of night-time light pollution: options and developments. Journal of Applied Ecology 49, 1256-1266. Much concern has been expressed…