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Demographic effects of artificial nighttime lighting on animal populations

By editor 21/03/2014 Animals, Artificial lighting, Ecolight, Humans

Gaston, Kevin J., and Jonathan Bennie. “Demographic effects of artificial nighttime lighting on animal populations.” Environmental Reviews 22.4 (2014): 323-330. Artificial lighting, especially but not exclusively through street lights, has…

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Altering light cycles

By admin 10/06/2013 Artificial lighting, Ecolight, Kevin Gaston, Macroecological, Skyglow

Davies, T.W., Bennie, J., Inger, R., & Gaston, K.J. 2013. Artificial light alters natural regimes of night-time sky brightness. Scientific Reports 3, 1722. Artificial light is globally one of the most widely…

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Lighting and vision

By admin 10/06/2013 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.…

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Green light for efficiency

By admin 10/06/2013 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…

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The ecological impacts of nighttime light pollution: a mechanistic appraisal

By editor 08/04/2013 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…

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Reducing the impacts of nighttime lighting

By admin 08/12/2012 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…

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Street lighting changes communities

By admin 16/09/2012 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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