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 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…

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.…

The costs and benefits of artificial light

By editor March 10, 2015 Artificial lighting, Ecolight, Humans, Kevin Gaston, Macroecological, Spectral, Street lighting

Gaston, K.J., Gaston, S., Bennie, J. & Hopkins, J. (2015) Benefits and costs of artificial nighttime lighting of the environment. Environmental Reviews 23, 14-23. Artificial lighting has transformed the outdoor…

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…

Mapping lights for ecology

By Emma Rosenfeld April 29, 2014 Artificial lighting, Ecolight, Fine scale measurement of lighting, Spectral, Street lighting

Bennie, J., Davies, T. W., Inger, R. and Gaston, K. J. (2014), Mapping artificial lightscapes for ecological studies. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 5: 534–540. doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12182 Artificial illumination of the…

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.…

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…

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…

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