ArticleBiology letters2022
Artificial light at night reverses monthly foraging pattern under simulated moonlight.
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- Darkening of the Global Ocean.Global change biology · 2025Article
- Impacts of artificial light at night on the early life history of two ecosystem engineers.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Long-term exposure to experimental light affects the ground-dwelling invertebrate community, independent of light spectra.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Introduction of artificial light at night increases the abundance of predators, scavengers, and parasites in arthropod communities.iScience · 2023Article
- Artificial light at night reverses monthly foraging pattern under simulated moonlight.Biology letters · 2022Article
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Abstract
Mounting evidence shows that artificial light at night (ALAN) alters biological processes across levels of organization, from cells to communities. Yet, the combined impacts of ALAN and natural sources of night-time illumination remain little explored. This is in part due the lack of accurate simulations of the complex changes moonlight intensity, timing and spectra throughout a single night and lunar cycles in laboratory experiments. We custom-built a novel system to simulate natural patterns of moonlight to test how different ALAN intensities affect predator-prey relationships over the full lunar cycle. Exposure to high intensity ALAN (10 and 50 lx) reversed the natural lunar-guided foraging pattern by the gastropod mesopredator
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