The ecological impacts of nighttime light pollution: a mechanistic appraisal

By Kevin J. Gaston, Jonathan Bennie, Thomas W. Davies, J. Hopkins. Biological Reviews of The Cambridge Philosophical Society, 2013

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Subfields: Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, Global and Planetary Change, Ophthalmology

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Is light pollution driving moth population declines? A review of causal mechanisms across the life cycle (2020, background): “It can be valuable to group the effects of ALANwithin amechanistic framework (Gaston et al., 2013).”
Light pollution is a driver of insect declines (2020, background): “A growing body of research demonstrates that ALAN can impact the fitness of plants and animals (Bennie et al., 2016; Gaston et al., 2013), and more recent reviews have catalogued its broadscale effects on insects in particular (Desouhant et al.”
Mechanistic, ecological, and evolutionary consequences of artificial light at night for insects: review and prospective (2019, background): “…for changes in natural rhythms, such as diel, lunar, and seasonal rhythms (Gaston et al., 2017), and has negative consequences for animals and plants at all biological organization levels, frommolecular to community and ecosystem levels (Gaston et al., 2013, 2015; Russart & Nelson, 2018a).”
Moth–flame optimization algorithm: variants and applications (2019, background): “This mechanism allows the moth to ﬂy by preserving a stable angle with respect to the moon, a very effective mechanism for traveling long distances in a straight path [43].”
Do artificially illuminated skies affect biodiversity in nocturnal landscapes? (2013, background): “While many acute and often fatal effects of direct light on nocturnal organisms are identified (Rich and Longcore 2006; Hölker et al. 2010a; Gaston et al. 2013), very little is known about what effect, if any, the diffuse light surrounding urban areas has on biodiversity.”
The nature, extent, and ecological implications of marine light pollution (2014, background): “For instance, barnacle larvae can choose settlement zones under white light intensities of 1 × 10 lumen m (lux) (Crisp and Ritz 1973), which is four orders of magnitude less than that emitted by urban skyglow (Gaston et al. 2013).”
The effects of light pollution on biological rhythms of birds: an integrated, mechanistic perspective (2015, positive): “light pollution (Rich and Longcore 2006; Gaston et al. 2013), which the symposium ‘‘Light in the darkness: how does artificial night lighting influence bird behavior and ecology?’’ at the 26th IOC in Tokyo, Japan, perfectly exemplifies.”
Moth-flame optimization algorithm: A novel nature-inspired heuristic paradigm (2015, methodology): “In this method, a moth flies by maintaining a fixed angle with respect to the moon, a very effective mechanism for travelling long distances in a straight path [47,48].”
Urbanization Shapes the Ecology and Evolution of Plant-Arthropod Herbivore Interactions (2019, background): “Anthropogenic light pollution is inherent to all urban areas and it can disrupt an organism’s circadian rhythm (Cinzano et al., 2001; Gaston et al., 2013).”