ReviewJournal of experimental zoology. Part A, Ecological and integrative physiology2018
Artificial light at night alters behavior in laboratory and wild animals.
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- Population-level impacts of reducing artificial light at night across an entire migratory corridor.Biology letters · 2026Article
- Assessing plague risk across seven decades of environmental change in Inner Mongolia, China: An interpretable machine learning.iScience · 2026Article
- The Effects of Light on Vertebrate Welfare: A Review.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Review
- Sexual Development ofInsects · 2025Article
- The Impact of the Lunar Cycle and Season on Small Mammal Communities Near a Large Metropolitan Area.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Partial night lighting may reduce the physiological impact of artificial light at night on captive zebra finches.Frontiers in physiology · 2025Article
- Anthropogenic disturbance affects calling and collective behaviour in corvid roosts.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Effects of dim light at night in C57BL/6 J mice on recovery after spinal cord injury.Experimental neurology · 2024Article
- The hypothalamic transcriptome reveals the importance of visual perception on the egg production of Wanxi white geese.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2024Article
- Insect communities under skyglow: diffuse night-time illuminance induces spatio-temporal shifts in movement and predation.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Effects of Artificial Light at Night on Fitness-Related Traits of Sea Urchin (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Dim light at night affects the locomotor activity of nocturnal African pygmy mice (Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Age-Related In Vivo Structural Changes in the Male Mouse Olfactory Bulb and Their Correlation with Olfactory-Driven Behavior.Biology · 2023Article
- The Effects of Artificial Night Lighting on Tail Regeneration and Prey Consumption in a Nocturnal Salamander (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Oriented migratory flight at night: Consequences of nighttime light pollution for monarch butterflies.iScience · 2022Article
- Effects of light pollution on photoperiod-driven seasonality.Hormones and behavior · 2022Review
- Artificial Light at Night Drives Earlier Singing in a Neotropical Bird.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- The Ventral Tegmental Area and Nucleus Accumbens as Circadian Oscillators: Implications for Drug Abuse and Substance Use Disorders.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Review
- Effects of melatonin on testicular function in adult male mice under different photoperiods.Animal reproduction · 2022Article
- Artificial light at night as an environmental pollutant: An integrative approach across taxa, biological functions, and scientific disciplines.Journal of experimental zoology. Part A, Ecological and integrative physiology · 2018Article
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Abstract
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 been vastly changed in response to the use of artificial lighting. Wildlife is now often exposed to direct lighting via streetlights or indirect lighting via sky glow at night. Because many activities rely on daily and seasonal light cues, the effects of artificial light at night could be extensive, but remain largely unknown. Laboratory studies suggest exposure to light at night can alter typical timing of daily locomotor activity and shift the timing of foraging/food intake to the daytime in nocturnal rodents. Additionally, nocturnal rodents decrease anxiety-like behaviors (i.e., spend more time in the open and increase rearing up) in response to even dim light at night. These are all likely maladaptive responses in the wild. Photoperiodic animals rely on seasonal changes in day length as a cue to evoke physiological and behavioral modifications to anticipate favorable and unfavorable conditions for survival and reproduction. Light at night can mask detection of short days, inappropriately signal long days, and thus desynchronize seasonal reproductive activities. We review laboratory and the sparse field studies that address the effects of exposure to artificial light at night to propose that exposure to light at night disrupts circadian and seasonal behavior in wildlife, which potentially decreases individual fitness and modifies ecosystems.
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