Mechanistic, ecological, and evolutionary consequences of artificial light at night for insects: review and prospective

Insect declines and agroecosystems: does light pollution matter?

(2018) M. Grubisic et al.   ANNALS OF APPLIED BIOLOGY

How Many Species of Insects and Other Terrestrial Arthropods Are There on Earth?

(2018) Nigel E. Stork   Annual Review of Entomology

Photons and foraging: Artificial light at night generates avoidance behaviour in male, but not female, New Zealand weta

(2018) Bridgette Farnworth et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Members of the neuropeptide transcriptional network in Helicoverpa armigera and their expression in response to light stress

(2018) Lijun Wang et al.   GENE

Declines in moth populations stress the need for conserving dark nights

(2018) Frank van Langevelde et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Artificial light at night prolongs juvenile development time in the black field cricket, Teleogryllus commodus

(2018) Joanna Durrant et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

Urban Evolutionary Ecology and the Potential Benefits of Implementing Genomics

(2018) Christopher J Schell   JOURNAL OF HEREDITY

Tracking the dynamics of skyglow with differential photometry using a digital camera with fisheye lens

(2018) Andreas Jechow et al.   JOURNAL OF QUANTITATIVE SPECTROSCOPY & RADIATIVE TRANSFER

Dietary changes in predators and scavengers in a nocturnally illuminated riparian ecosystem

(2018) Alessandro Manfrin et al.   OIKOS

Light at night as an environmental endocrine disruptor

(2018) Kathryn L.G. Russart et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Short- and mid-wavelength artificial light influences the flash signals of Aquatica ficta fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae)

(2018) Avalon Celeste Stevahn Owens et al.   PLoS One

Plasticity in a changing world: behavioural responses to human perturbations

(2018) Joan van Baaren et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Low Levels of Artificial Light at Night Strengthen Top-Down Control in Insect Food Web

(2018) Dirk Sanders et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Artificial light at night as a driver of evolution across urban-rural landscapes

(2018) Gareth R Hopkins et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Lighting up the nighttime

(2018) Kevin J. Gaston   SCIENCE

The impact of artificial light at night on nocturnal insects: A review and synthesis

(2018) Avalon C. S. Owens et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Why artificial light at night should be a focus for global change research in the 21st century

(2017) Thomas W. Davies et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Multiple night-time light-emitting diode lighting strategies impact grassland invertebrate assemblages

(2017) Thomas W. Davies et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Quantifying the attractiveness of broad-spectrum street lights to aerial nocturnal insects

(2017) Andrew Wakefield et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Chronic exposure to dim artificial light at night decreases fecundity and adult survival in Drosophila melanogaster

(2017) L.K. McLay et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Chronobiology of interspecific interactions in a changing world

(2017) Noga Kronfeld-Schor et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Variability of surface and underwater nocturnal spectral irradiance with the presence of clouds in urban and peri-urban wetlands

(2017) Jean Secondi et al.   PLoS One

Combined effects of night warming and light pollution on predator–prey interactions

(2017) Colleen R. Miller et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Streetlights attract a broad array of beetle species

(2017) Bruno Augusto Souza de Medeiros et al.   REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE ENTOMOLOGIA

Health consequences of electric lighting practices in the modern world: A report on the National Toxicology Program's workshop on shift work at night, artificial light at night, and circadian disruption

(2017) Ruth M. Lunn et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Imaging and mapping the impact of clouds on skyglow with all-sky photometry

(2017) Andreas Jechow et al.   Scientific Reports

Pheromones-based sexual selection in a rapidly changing world

(2017) Jessica Henneken et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Method to improve the survival of night-swarming mayflies near bridges in areas of distracting light pollution

(2017) Ádám Egri et al.   Royal Society Open Science

More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas

(2017) Caspar A. Hallmann et al.   PLoS One

Reduced flight-to-light behaviour of moth populations exposed to long-term urban light pollution

(2016) Florian Altermatt et al.   Biology Letters

Sex-specific gene expression in the mosquito Culex pipiens f. molestus in response to artificial light at night

(2016) Ann-Christin Honnen et al.   BMC GENOMICS

The dark side of street lighting: impacts on moths and evidence for the disruption of nocturnal pollen transport

(2016) Callum J. Macgregor et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Street lighting: sex-independent impacts on moth movement

(2016) Tobias Degen et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Male-Biased Capture in Light Traps in Spodoptera exigua (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae): Results from the Studies of Reproductive Activities

(2016) Wen-Jie Cheng et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT BEHAVIOR

The spectral amplification effect of clouds to the night sky radiance in Madrid

(2016) M. Aubé et al.   JOURNAL OF QUANTITATIVE SPECTROSCOPY & RADIATIVE TRANSFER

Experimental tests of light-pollution impacts on nocturnal insect courtship and dispersal

(2016) Ariel Firebaugh et al.   OECOLOGIA

Experimentally comparing the attractiveness of domestic lights to insects: Do LEDs attract fewer insects than conventional light types?

(2016) Andrew Wakefield et al.   Ecology and Evolution

The new world atlas of artificial night sky brightness

(2016) F. Falchi et al.   Science Advances

Nocturnal light pollution and underexposure to daytime sunlight: Complementary mechanisms of circadian disruption and related diseases

(2015) Michael H. Smolensky et al.   CHRONOBIOLOGY INTERNATIONAL

Artificial light at night inhibits mating in a Geometrid moth

(2015) Koert G. van Geffen et al.   Insect Conservation and Diversity

Predation of larval Lepidoptera in habitat fragments varies spatially and temporally but is not affected by light pollution

(2015) Kylee Grenis et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Impacts of artificial lighting on bats: a review of challenges and solutions

(2015) Emma Louise Stone et al.   MAMMALIAN BIOLOGY

Tuning the white light spectrum of light emitting diode lamps to reduce attraction of nocturnal arthropods

(2015) T. Longcore et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Melatonin: a possible link between the presence of artificial light at night and reductions in biological fitness

(2015) T. M. Jones et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

(2015) K. J. Gaston et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Artificial light at night: melatonin as a mediator between the environment and epigenome

(2015) A. Haim et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Cascading effects of artificial light at night: resource-mediated control of herbivores in a grassland ecosystem

(2015) J. Bennie et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A framework to assess evolutionary responses to anthropogenic light and sound

(2015) John P. Swaddle et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Artificial nighttime light changes aphid-parasitoid population dynamics

(2015) Dirk Sanders et al.   Scientific Reports

Dynamics of Dark-Fly Genome Under Environmental Selections

(2015) Minako Izutsu et al.   G3-Genes Genomes Genetics

Constant illumination reduces circulating melatonin and impairs immune function in the cricketTeleogryllus commodus

(2015) Joanna Durrant et al.   PeerJ

LED lighting increases the ecological impact of light pollution irrespective of color temperature

(2014) S. M. Pawson et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Pollination by nocturnal Lepidoptera, and the effects of light pollution: a review

(2014) CALLUM J. MACGREGOR et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Range of attraction of a 6-W moth light trap

(2014) Roy H.A. van Grunsven et al.   ENTOMOLOGIA EXPERIMENTALIS ET APPLICATA

Sampling procedures and adult sex ratios in spruce budworm

(2014) Marc Rhainds et al.   ENTOMOLOGIA EXPERIMENTALIS ET APPLICATA

Demographic effects of artificial nighttime lighting on animal populations

(2014) Kevin J. Gaston et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEWS

Macro-moth families differ in their attraction to light: implications for light-trap monitoring programmes

(2014) Thomas Merckx et al.   Insect Conservation and Diversity

Artificial light at night causes diapause inhibition and sex-specific life history changes in a moth

(2014) Koert G. van Geffen et al.   Ecology and Evolution

The ecological impacts of nighttime light pollution: a mechanistic appraisal

(2013) Kevin J. Gaston et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Shedding light on moths: shorter wavelengths attract noctuids more than geometrids

(2013) R. Somers-Yeates et al.   Biology Letters

Dung Beetles Use the Milky Way for Orientation

(2013) Marie Dacke et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Bright lights, big city: influences of ecological light pollution on reciprocal stream–riparian invertebrate fluxes

(2013) Lars A. Meyer et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

The effects of artificial lighting on adult aquatic and terrestrial insects

(2013) Elizabeth K. Perkin et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Melatonin: Buffering the Immune System

(2013) Antonio Carrillo-Vico et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

The role of melatonin in the cells of the innate immunity: a review

(2013) Juan R. Calvo et al.   JOURNAL OF PINEAL RESEARCH

Street lighting changes the composition of invertebrate communities

(2012) T. W. Davies et al.   Biology Letters

Roles of circadian clock genes in insect photoperiodism

(2012) Shin G. Goto   ENTOMOLOGICAL SCIENCE

The proximal costs of case construction in caddisflies: antioxidant and life history responses

(2012) N. Mondy et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Public Street Lights Increase House Infestation by the Chagas Disease Vector Triatoma dimidiata

(2012) Freddy Santiago Pacheco-Tucuch et al.   PLoS One

Effect of spectral composition of artificial light on the attraction of moths

(2011) Frank van Langevelde et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Evolution and behavioural responses to human-induced rapid environmental change

(2011) Andrew Sih et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Cloud Coverage Acts as an Amplifier for Ecological Light Pollution in Urban Ecosystems

(2011) Christopher C. M. Kyba et al.   PLoS One

Endangered species and a threatened discipline: behavioural ecology

(2011) Tim Caro et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Synergy in information use for mate finding: demonstration in a parasitoid wasp

(2010) Marie Metzger et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

LIGHT AT NIGHT ALTERS THE PARAMETERS OF THE ECLOSION RHYTHM IN A TROPICAL FRUIT FLY,DROSOPHILA JAMBULINA

(2009) Pooja Thakurdas et al.   CHRONOBIOLOGY INTERNATIONAL

Experimental evidence for male biased flight-to-light behavior in two moth species

(2009) Florian Altermatt et al.   ENTOMOLOGIA EXPERIMENTALIS ET APPLICATA

Oxidative stress as a mediator of life history trade-offs: mechanisms, measurements and interpretation

(2008) Pat Monaghan et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS