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Artificial light in Protected Areas

By editor 05/07/2015 Artificial lighting, Ecolight, Kevin Gaston, Macroecological, Mitigation, Satellite data, Skyglow

Gaston, K.J., Duffy, J.P. & Bennie, J. (2015) Quantifying the erosion of natural darkness in the global protected area system. Conservation Biology 29(4), 1132-41. The nighttime light environment of much…

Pea aphids and artificial light

By editor 16/03/2015 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 biological impacts of artificial light at night: the research challenge

By editor 16/03/2015 Animals, Artificial lighting, Ecolight, Macroecological, Skyglow, Spectral

Gaston, K. J., Visser, M. E., & Hölker, F. (2015). The biological impacts of artificial light at night: the research challenge. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0133 A piece setting…

Artificial nighttime light pollution in natural ecosystems

By editor 11/03/2015 Artificial lighting, Ecolight, Kevin Gaston, Macroecological, Satellite data

Bennie, J., Duffy, J.P., Davies, T.W., Correa-Cano, M.E. & Gaston, K.J. (2015) Global trends in exposure to light pollution in natural terrestrial ecosystems. Remote Sensing 7, 2715-2730. The rapid growth…

The costs and benefits of artificial light

By editor 10/03/2015 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…

Worldwide night-time light pollution

By editor 12/02/2015 Artificial lighting, Ecolight, Kevin Gaston, Macroecological, Skyglow

Kyba, C.C.M., Tong, K.P., Bennie, J., Birriel, I., Birriel, J.J., Cool, A., Danielsen, A., Davies, T.W., den Outer, P.N., Edwards, W., Ehlert, R., Falchi, F., Fischer, J., Giacomelli, A., Guibbilini,…

Effects of artificial night-time light

By editor 18/11/2014 Animals, Ecolight, Humans, Kevin Gaston, Macroecological, Mitigation, Spectral, Temporal

Gaston, K. J., Duffy, J. P., Gaston, S., Bennie, J. & Davies, T. W. (2014) Human alteration of natural light cycles: causes and ecological consequences. Oecologia 176, 917–931. Artificial light…

Marine artificial light

By editor 18/11/2014 Animals, Artificial lighting, Ecolight, Kevin Gaston, Macroecological, Mitigation, Satellite data

Davies, T. W., Duffy, J. P., Bennie, J. & Gaston, K. J. (2014) The nature, extent and ecological consequences of marine light pollution. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 12(6),…

Flickering of the light

By admin 13/06/2014 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…

Brightening and darkening of Europe

By admin 13/06/2014 Artificial lighting, Ecolight, Kevin Gaston, Macroecological, Mitigation, Satellite data

Bennie, J., Davies, T., Duffy, J., Inger, R. & Gaston, K.J. 2014. Contrasting trends in light pollution across Europe. Scientific Reports 4, 3789. Since the 1970s nighttime satellite images of…