Exposure to artificial light at night and the consequences for flora, fauna, and ecosystems

J Falcón, A Torriglia, D Attia, F Viénot… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The present review draws together wide-ranging studies performed over the last decades
that catalogue the effects of artificial-light-at-night (ALAN) upon living species and their …

Applications of satellite remote sensing of nighttime light observations: Advances, challenges, and perspectives

M Zhao, Y Zhou, X Li, W Cao, C He, B Yu, X Li… - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
Nighttime light observations from remote sensing provide us with a timely and spatially
explicit measure of human activities, and therefore enable a host of applications such as …

A harmonized global nighttime light dataset 1992–2018

X Li, Y Zhou, M Zhao, X Zhao - Scientific data, 2020 - nature.com
Nighttime light (NTL) data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
(DMSP)/Operational Linescan System (OLS) and the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer …

Environmental risks from artificial nighttime lighting widespread and increasing across Europe

A Sánchez de Miguel, J Bennie, E Rosenfeld… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
The nighttime environment of much of Earth is being changed rapidly by the introduction of
artificial lighting. While data on spatial and temporal variation in the intensity of artificial …

Why artificial light at night should be a focus for global change research in the 21st century

TW Davies, T Smyth - Global Change Biology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The environmental impacts of artificial light at night have been a rapidly growing field of
global change science in recent years. Yet, light pollution has not achieved parity with other …

Ecological effects of artificial light at night on wild plants

J Bennie, TW Davies, D Cruse, KJ Gaston - Journal of Ecology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Plants use light as a source of both energy and information. Plant physiological responses to
light, and interactions between plants and animals (such as herbivory and pollination), have …

Light pollution is greatest within migration passage areas for nocturnally-migrating birds around the world

SA Cabrera-Cruz, JA Smolinsky, JJ Buler - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Excessive or misdirected artificial light at night (ALAN) produces light pollution that
influences several aspects of the biology and ecology of birds, including disruption of …

Does polycentric development produce less transportation carbon emissions? Evidence from urban form identified by night-time lights across US metropolitan areas

MC Jung, M Kang, S Kim - Urban Climate, 2022 - Elsevier
Identifying the comprehensive metropolitan urban form is important to propose effective
policies to mitigate transportation carbon emissions. A publicly accessible night-time light …

Seabird mortality induced by land‐based artificial lights

A Rodríguez, ND Holmes, PG Ryan… - Conservation …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Artificial lights at night cause high mortality of seabirds, one of the most endangered groups
of birds globally. Fledglings of burrow‐nesting seabirds, and to a lesser extent adults, are …

Recent advances in the remote sensing of insects

MW Rhodes, JJ Bennie, A Spalding… - Biological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Remote sensing has revolutionised many aspects of ecological research, enabling
spatiotemporal data to be collected in an efficient and highly automated manner. The last …