Stacking the odds: light pollution may shift the balance in an ancient predator–prey arms race

By C. Minnaar, J. Boyles, I. Minnaar, C. Sole, A. McKechnie. 2015

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Interpreting insect declines: seven challenges and a way forward (2020, background): “If artificial stimulus effects, such as attraction to light, are also compounded by an added component of source-sink dynamics in the potential mortality associated with the stimulus, then this could be a driver of real declines in abundance, over and above dilution effects (Minnaar et al., 2015).”
Light pollution is a driver of insect declines (2020, background): “To the contrary, a wide variety of moth species willingly approach streetlights monitored by foraging bats (Acharya and Fenton, 1999), where they are less able to execute their normal evasive flight behavior (Minnaar et al., 2015; Svensson and Rydell, 1998).”
Cascading extinctions as a hidden driver of insect decline (2020, background): “For example, artificial light at night can change interactions within ecological networks such as altering predation rates (Minnaar et al., 2015; Sanders & Gaston, 2018; Sanders et al., 2018b; Kehoe et al., 2020) and pollination, impacting entire networks (Knop et al.”