KEVIN J GASTON

Professor of Biodiversity & Conservation at University of Exeter

Outdoor lighting continues increase

By editor November 23, 2017 Animals, Artificial lighting, Ecolight, EMISSI@N, Humans, Kevin Gaston, Plants, Satellite data, Street lighting

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…

Time and time again

By editor November 17, 2017 Animals, Artificial lighting, Ecolight, Plants, Skyglow, Temporal

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…

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 up the tropics

By admin February 18, 2017 Artificial lighting, Kevin Gaston, Plants, Satellite data

de Freitas, J.R., Bennie, J., Mantovani, W. & Gaston, K.J. 2017. Exposure of tropical ecosystems to artificial light at night: Brazil as a case study. PLoS One 12, e0171655. Artificial…

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…

Lighting plants at night

By admin June 27, 2016 Artificial lighting, Ecolight, Kevin Gaston, Plants

Bennie, J., Davies, T.W., Cruse, D. & Gaston, K.J. 2016. Ecological effects of artificial light at night on wild plants. Journal of Ecology 104, 611-620. (Image from Shutterstock) 1. Plants…

Artificial light and food webs

By editor October 20, 2015 Animals, Artificial lighting, Ecolight, Kevin Gaston, Mesocosm experiment

Sanders, D., Kehoe, R., Tiley, K., Bennie, J., Cruse, D., Davies, T.W., van Veen F.J.F. & Gaston, K.J. (2015) Artificial nighttime light changes aphid-parasitoid population dynamics. Scientific Reports 5, 15232.…

Mammals and artificial light

By editor September 15, 2015 Animals, Artificial lighting, Ecolight, Kevin Gaston, Macroecological, Satellite data

Duffy, J.P., Bennie, J., Duràn, A.P. & Gaston, K.J. (2015) Mammalian ranges are experiencing erosion of natural darkness. Scientific Reports 5, 12042. The continuous increase in the intensity and extent…

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.…