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Shedding Light on an Ecosystem in the Dark


Dark diversity: shedding light on absent species - Mark Vellend

Local diversity and the species pool. Biological diversity is a central topic of ecological theory and conservation biology. A plethora of approaches exists.

The Dark Side of Light - HHMI BioInteractive

In 2002, the American researchers Travis Longcore and Catherine Rich organized the first conference on the ecological consequences of artificial ...

shedding light on the dark side of entrepreneurship - Emerald Insight

... ecosystem. The “dark entrepreneurship” phenomenon also extends to the intersections of legitimate business practices with criminal or ...

Subterranean Ecosystems - Earths Underground Treasures

There are plants that thrive without sunlight in subterranean ecosystems. In the absence of sunlight, some plant species have adapted to grow in complete ...

Gardening for Good: The Dark Side of Light | Estuary Magazine

Artificial light can create barriers to animal movement, fragmenting habitat just like roads and fences. Predators use light to hunt, while prey use darkness ...

0: What is Light Pollution? - A Podcast Shedding the Light Only ...

Now, light pollution is largely regarded as not just societal nighttime blight, but also a source of wide reaching ecological disturbance and as a potential ...

Snowglow and leafy trees in winter - IGB Berlin

Another interesting approach to limit the impact of light pollution at the landscape level could be the establishment of "Dark Infrastructures".

Regulating Light Pollution Under the Clean Water Act

Eric Lystrup, The Dark Side of the Light: Rachel Carson, Light Pollution, and a. Case for Federal Regulation, 57 JURIMETRICS 505, 511-12 (2017); ...

Light pollution - Wikipedia

Consequences · Public health impact · Ecological impact · Effect on astronomy.

Shedding light on our switch to LEDs in urban New Zealand

Insects. Love them or hate them, they help us out in more ways than you may know. Pollinating plants, controlling pests, and even becoming a ...

Influence of Artificial Light at Night (ALAN) on the Outstanding ...

Natural light levels are an essential characteristic of every habitat, and loss of natural darkness can result in degradation of habitat quality (Hölker et al.

Artificial Light at Night: A Global Threat to Plant Biological Rhythms ...

Also the pollution effect of ALAN by nocturnal moths (Lepidoptera) and concluded that pollination is an ecosystem driven process that can be disturbed by ...

Solar-Powered Bugs and Sun-Gobbling Slugs: Shedding Light on ...

Generally, plants sit still and metabolize sunlight, with some exceptions. Animals move around and eat food, with some exceptions.

Switch it off!: How light pollution disorients ecosystems

Several biological activities in plants, such as pigment formation, leave shedding and the onset and breaking of bud dormancy are determined by ...

The dark side of the black caiman: shedding light on species dietary ...

Of particular interest was the key role played by caimans in pond ecology and throughout the entire marsh ecosystem via their interactions with ...

Shedding Light on the Messy Beauty of the Arctic - Hyperallergic

Artist Nancy Campbell's book The Library of Ice draws parallels between ecological breakdown and the loss of human culture.

Shedding light on the dark cycle of iron in the oceans - News

... ecosystem function. The ocean's twilight zone – known as the mesopelagic zone – is the layer of ocean below the sunlit upper ocean where ...

Shedding light on environmentally transmitted parasites - NSF PAR

Global cli- mate change is making lakes darker; these less transpar- ent lakes could become sicker lakes. Epidemics in. Daphnia can exert ecosystem-level ...

Shedding Light on Fishing: How Light Conditions Impact Your Catch

Before we look into how light affects fishing, let's first understand the basics. Light plays a pivotal role in the aquatic ecosystem, influencing everything ...

Dark diversity: Its potential application for nature conservation.

Dark diversity: shedding light on absent species. Trends In Ecology And Evolution 26: 124–128. Pärtel M, Zobel M, Zobel K, van der Maarel E. 1996. The ...