KEVIN J GASTON

Professor of Biodiversity & Conservation at University of Exeter

Top-down and bottom-up lighting effects

By admin November 17, 2018 Animals, Artificial lighting, Ecolight, Kevin Gaston, Mesocosm experiment, Mitigation, Plants, Spectral, Street lighting

Bennie, J., Davies, T.W., Cruse, D., Inger, R. & Gaston, K.J. 2018. Artificial light at night causes top-down and bottom-up trophic effects on invertebrate populations. Journal of Applied Ecology 55, 2698-2706.…

Throwing light on communities

By editor April 15, 2018 Animals, Artificial lighting, Ecolight, Kevin Gaston, Macroecological, Plants

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…

Cacti losing darkness

By editor March 13, 2018 Artificial lighting, Ecolight, Kevin Gaston, Macroecological, Plants, Satellite data

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…

Outdoor lighting continues increase

By editor November 23, 2017 Animals, Artificial lighting, Ecolight, 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 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 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…