Increased artificial illumination delays urban autumnal foliar senescence.

Yang Chen, Wendi Qu, Constantin M Zohner, Josep Peñuelas, Chaoyang Wu

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Article in Nature communications, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Yang Chen *The Key Laboratory of Land Surface Pattern and Simulation, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

Wendi Qu *School of Ecology and Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China.

Constantin M ZohnerDepartment of Environmental Systems Science, Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8302-4854

Josep PeñuelasCSIC, Global Ecology Unit CREAF-CSIC-UAB, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

Chaoyang WuThe Key Laboratory of Land Surface Pattern and Simulation, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. wucy@igsnrr.ac.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6163-8209

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 42125101

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rapid urbanization has driven widespread increases in artificial light at night, intensifying energy use, light pollution, and sustainability challenges. However, its ecological impacts, particularly on vegetation phenological transitions, remain poorly understood. Using 62,994 site-year in situ records and satellite observations across 452 cities from 2001 to 2022, we show that elevated levels of artificial light at night are associated with delayed dates of foliar senescence in urban areas. This delaying effect is spatially heterogeneous and nonlinear, being most pronounced at low light intensities ( < 15 nW cm

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LightLightingPlant LeavesPlant SenescenceCitiesClimate ChangeEcosystemSeasonsUrbanization

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PMID41484111

DOI10.1038/s41467-025-68246-7

PMCPMC12891584

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