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Shedding Light on Zooplankton in the Dark

But this extreme sensitivity to light has a dark side: the light from vessels or other manmade ocean structures is enough to disturb zooplankton ...

Shedding light on ecological balance - Barnstable Patriot

Light pollution affects the relationship between rodents and their predators. If we turned out our lights, we might encourage barred, screech ...

Shedding light — on the polar night - Norwegian SciTech News

The polar night is dark — if you're a person, but not if you're a krill or a seabird or a fish. Surprisingly, there's more than enough ...

shedding light on freshwater ecosystems under environmental ...

Light pollution due to human activities has become an emergent issue of environmental concern. Numerous human health and ecological detrimental effects of ...

Protecting Wildlife Through Responsible Garden Lighting - LinkedIn

To mitigate these effects, embracing Dark Skies compliant lighting in Garden Design is crucial. By minimizing light pollution and preserving ...

The biological impacts of artificial light at night: the research challenge

In the tropics, for example, nocturnal seed dispersers such as bats are crucial for ecosystem functioning. It was found that natural forest succession and ...

Shedding light on light: benefits of anthropogenic illumination to a ...

We argue that light emitted from an industrial complex improved nocturnal visibility. This allowed sight-based foraging in place of tactile ...

Light Pollution Disturbs Moths Even in the Dark - Innovations Report

A new study now shows that the behaviour of moths changes not only in the cone of light from street lamps, but also outside the illuminated area.

Shedding light with harmonic radar: Unveiling the hidden impacts of ...

One nocturnal species group experiencing marked declines are moths, which play a key role in food webs and ecosystem services such as plant ...

Mapping the consequences of artificial light at night for intertidal ...

While the impacts of artificial light at night in terrestrial and riparian ecosystems are increasingly well documented, those on organisms that ...

Artificial light at night causes top‐down and bottom‐up trophic ...

Throughout evolutionary time, most terrestrial ecosystems have been exposed to regular daily cycles of sunlight and darkness. ... Light acts as a ...

Shedding light on shade: ecological perspectives of understorey ...

Request PDF | Shedding light on shade: ecological perspectives of understorey plant life | Shade, in ecological sense, is not merely a lack of light, ...

Shedding Light on the Harmful Effects on Wildlife by The Dark Side ...

Hi everyone! Welcome to "The Dark Side of Lighting," where we explore the impacts of light pollution and what we can do to reduce its impact ...

Shedding Light on Life - National Wildlife Federation

More than half of all light energy utilized on Earth is photosynthesized by algae such as those coccolithophorids responsible for stimulating cloud formation at ...

Scientists Are Shedding Light on 'Dark Vessels' at Sea

However, this sprawling marine ecosystem, which covers more than 70 percent of the planet, also provides a perfect place for unregulated ...

Shedding light on a dark biodiversity | students - Gate2Biotech.com

Shedding light on a dark biodiversity ... The theory of "dark diversity" was introduced in March by a group of botanists from Hungary. It says ...

Dark diversity: shedding light on absent species - Cell Press

Dark diversity can also be used to counteract biodiversity loss and to estimate the restoration potential of ecosystems. We illustrate the dark ...

Shedding light on biology's 'dark matter'

Researchers have discovered a method which might illuminate the biological phenomenon of “microbial dark matter” – a near-invisible ...

Dark diversity: shedding light on absent species - FoxHunt Search

We call the set of absent species 'dark diversity'. Relating local and dark diversities enables biodiversity comparisons between regions, ecosystems and ...

Shedding light on dark traps - EurekAlert!

We found that the material was very heterogeneous; you had quite large regions that were bright and luminescent, and other regions that were ...