ReviewProceedings. Biological sciences2013
Chronobiology by moonlight.
Review in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 79 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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79 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Pollination Across the Diel Cycle: A Global Meta-Analysis.Ecology letters · 2025Pooled it
- The association between lunar phase and intracranial aneurysm rupture: Myth or reality? Own data and systematic review.BMC neurology · 2017Pooled it
- Nocturnal Risk Assessment and Its Association With Anxiety Symptoms.Psychophysiology · 2026Trial
- Reproductive stage affects the daily behavioral patterns of parthenogenetic marbled crayfish.Current zoology · 2026Article
- The phenology of the European flat oyster (Ostrea edulis) and its environmental drivers.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Evolutionary and physiological arguments for the existence of a circalunar clock in humans.BMC ecology and evolution · 2026Review
- The Association Between Lunar Phases and Calving Frequency in Montbéliarde Dairy Cows in the Franche-Comté Region, France.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- A cross-site comparison reveals limited geographic variation in risk avoidance of snowshoe hares.Ecology · 2026Article
- The Impact of Lunar Phases During Day and Night Cycles on Perinatal Outcomes: A Nationwide Cohort Study.Birth (Berkeley, Calif.) · 2026Article
- Living in the Dark: Exploring the Factors Driving Nocturnal Activity in Three Lemur Species.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Video-Sound Recording Devices Reveal Multiple Drivers of Nocturnal Vocalizations in Tibetan Macaques.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- The Effects of Light on Vertebrate Welfare: A Review.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Review
- Lighting and circadian cues shape locomotor strategies for balance and navigation in larval zebrafish.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Synchronization of women's menstruation with the Moon has decreased but remains detectable when gravitational pull is strong.Science advances · 2025Article
- Lunar cycle and moonlight intensity influence nocturnal migration patterns in a small songbird.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Career perspective.Npj biological timing and sleep · 2025Article
- The Never Given 2022 Pittendrigh/Aschoff Lecture: The Clock Network in the Brain-Insights From Insects.Journal of biological rhythms · 2025Article
- Dinner in the dark: Factors influencing leopard activity patterns within a large protected area.PloS one · 2025Article
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- The moon's influence on the activity of tropical forest mammals.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
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Abstract
Most studies in chronobiology focus on solar cycles (daily and annual). Moonlight and the lunar cycle received considerably less attention by chronobiologists. An exception are rhythms in intertidal species. Terrestrial ecologists long ago acknowledged the effects of moonlight on predation success, and consequently on predation risk, foraging behaviour and habitat use, while marine biologists have focused more on the behaviour and mainly on reproduction synchronization with relation to the Moon phase. Lately, several studies in different animal taxa addressed the role of moonlight in determining activity and studied the underlying mechanisms. In this paper, we review the ecological and behavioural evidence showing the effect of moonlight on activity, discuss the adaptive value of these changes, and describe possible mechanisms underlying this effect. We will also refer to other sources of night-time light ('light pollution') and highlight open questions that demand further studies.
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