Conserving energy at a cost to biodiversity? Impacts of LED lighting on bats

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Artificial night lighting disrupts sex pheromone in a noctuid moth (2015, background): “E-mail: a.t.groot@uva.nl mercury vapour and metal halide lamps), towards (cold) white LED lamps (Stone et al. , 2012).”
Dark Matters: The Effects of Artificial Lighting on Bats (2016, background): “…dimming lights may not be beneficial to all bat species; Daubenton’s bats Myotis daubentonii, for instance, only emerge from their roosts at very low light levels (less than 1 lux) (Fure 2006) and R. hipposideros and Myotis spp. avoid commuting routes illuminated to 3.6 lux (Stone et al. 2012).”
Artificial light at night inhibits mating in a Geometrid moth (2015, background): “A wide variety of both diurnal and nocturnal animals are likely to be affected by light at night, including birds (Kempenaers et al., 2010; Titulaer et al., 2012; Dominoni et al., 2013), fish (Br€uning et al., 2011), mammals (Stone et al., 2012) and invertebrates (Davies et al., 2012).”
The nature, extent, and ecological implications of marine light pollution (2014, background): “Some species are attracted to artificially lit areas where they may experience increased predation (Rydell 1992), while others avoid artificially lit areas (Stone et al. 2012), and so are displaced from habitats that would otherwise be suitably dark in the absence of artificial lighting.”