Light Pollution as a Biodiversity Threat
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Artificial night lighting inhibits feeding in moths
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Do artificially illuminated skies affect biodiversity in nocturnal landscapes?
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“These questions deserve serious consideration, because light emission is believed to be currently increasing globally at a rate of 3–6 % per year (Hölker et al. 2010b).”
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“13a, researchers used three types of nanoscale and microscale particles to demonstrate this concept: (1) cochleate particles(163), (2) colloids of decanol(164), and (3) nanoporous Si microparticles(165).”
Where have all the people gone? Enhancing global conservation using night lights and social media
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MethodLight and noise pollution interact to disrupt interspecific interactions
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Is part‐night lighting an effective measure to limit the impacts of artificial lighting on bats?
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“In this context, designing outdoor lighting regulations that save energy and reduce CO2 emissions while limiting the ecological impacts of artificial lighting is a major challenge in land-use planning (H€olker et al., 2010a).”
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“Anthropogenic light pollution represents a growing global issue, currently affecting nearly 20% of the Earth’s surface and increasing by approximately 6% per year [1].”
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“Additionally, global climate change differen‐ tially affects seasons with a greater absolute increase in temperatures during the winter relative to the summer (Hughes, 2000).”
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“Not least because nocturnality may be the prevailing animal diel activity pattern (30% of vertebrates and 60% of invertebrates [Hölker et al. 2010]) and nocturnal noise exposure will increase as humans shift toward a 24-h society (Rosekind 2005).”
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“(1) The great tits in our population are from a semi-urbanized area which could have already affected their oxidative status physiology (through adaptation to their environment), making them less susceptible to the stress induced by artificial light.”
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Monitoring, trends and impacts of light pollution
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Self-citation
- Authors
- Hölker, F., Wolter, C., Perkin, E. K., & Tockner, K.
- Affiliations
- Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Hölker, Franz
- Venue
- Trends in Ecology & Evolution
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2010-12
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 681-682
- ISSN
- 0169-5347 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1991048925
- Cited by
- 860
- References
- 13
- Citations by year
- 2026: 68 · 2025: 74 · 2024: 62 · 2023: 85 · 2022: 59 · 2021: 104 · 2020: 75 · 2019: 71 · 2018: 61 · 2017: 54 · 2016: 28 · 2015: 53 · 2014: 29 · 2013: 17 · 2012: 8
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Trends in Ecology & Evolution (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Impact of Light on Environment and Health
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › bioluminescence and chemiluminescence research
- Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Night-time city culture
- Keywords
- light pollution, artificial light at night, biodiversity conservation, horizon scanning, light quality, conservation threats
- MeSH terms
- Biological Clocks, Environmental Monitoring, Environmental Pollutants, Biological Evolution, Light, Ecosystem, Biodiversity
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