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. 2017. Artificial light at night alters grassland vegetation species composition and phenology. Journal of Applied Ecology, in press. 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 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…

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 ecological impacts of nighttime light pollution: a mechanistic appraisal

By Emma Rosenfeld 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…