Light at night as an environmental endocrine disruptor

KLG Russart, RJ Nelson - Physiology & behavior, 2018 - Elsevier
Environmental endocrine disruptors (EEDs) are often consequences of human activity;
however, the effects of EEDs are not limited to humans. A primary focus over the past∼ 30 …

A systematic review for establishing relevant environmental parameters for urban lighting: Translating research into practice

C Pérez Vega, KM Zielinska-Dabkowska, S Schroer… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
The application of lighting technologies developed in the 20th century has increased the
brightness and changed the spectral composition of nocturnal night-time habitats and night …

Which traits influence bird survival in the city? A review

S Patankar, R Jambhekar, KR Suryawanshi… - Land, 2021 - mdpi.com
Urbanization poses a major threat to biodiversity worldwide. We focused on birds as a well-
studied taxon of interest, in order to review literature on traits that influence responses to …

Baseline and stress-induced corticosterone levels across birds and reptiles do not reflect urbanization levels

AS Injaian, CD Francis, JQ Ouyang… - Conservation …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Rates of human-induced environmental change continue increasing with human population
size, potentially altering animal physiology and negatively affecting wildlife. Researchers …

Artificial light at night alters behavior in laboratory and wild animals

KLG Russart, RJ Nelson - Journal of Experimental Zoology …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Life has evolved to internalize and depend upon the daily and seasonal light cycles to
synchronize physiology and behavior with environmental conditions. The nightscape has …

Light pollution may create demographic traps for nocturnal insects

A Firebaugh, KJ Haynes - Basic and Applied Ecology, 2019 - Elsevier
Light pollution impacts both intra-and inter-specific interactions, such as interactions
between mates and predator–prey interactions. In mobile organisms attracted to artificial …

Anthropogenic changes to the nighttime environment

KJ Gaston, AS Gardner, DTC Cox - Bioscience, 2023 - academic.oup.com
How the relative impacts of anthropogenic pressures on the natural environment vary
between different taxonomic groups, habitats, and geographic regions is increasingly well …

Endocrine effects of exposure to artificial light at night: a review and synthesis of knowledge gaps

ML Grunst, AS Grunst - Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, 2023 - Elsevier
Animals have evolved with natural patterns of light and darkness, such that light serves as
an important zeitgeber, allowing adaptive synchronization of behavior and physiology to …

Early life exposure to artificial light at night affects the physiological condition: an experimental study on the ecophysiology of free-living nestling songbirds

T Raap, G Casasole, R Pinxten, M Eens - Environmental Pollution, 2016 - Elsevier
Light pollution or artificial light at night (ALAN) is increasingly recognised to be an important
anthropogenic environmental pressure on wildlife, affecting animal behaviour and …

Working with inadequate tools: legislative shortcomings in protection against ecological effects of artificial light at night

S Schroer, BJ Huggins, C Azam, F Hölker - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
The fundamental change in nocturnal landscapes due to the increasing use of artificial light
at night (ALAN) is recognized as being detrimental to the environment and raises important …