The impacts of artificial light at night on the ecology of temperate and tropical reefs

Citizen scientists report global rapid reductions in the visibility of stars from 2011 to 2022

(2023) Christopher C. M. Kyba et al.   SCIENCE

Artificial light at night at environmental intensities disrupts daily rhythm of the oyster Crassostrea gigas

(2023) Audrey Botté et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

The effects of artificial light at night (ALAN) on the gaping activity and feeding of mussels

(2023) Eleni Christoforou et al.   Marine Pollution Bulletin

How moonlight shapes environments, life histories, and ecological interactions on coral reefs

(2022) Jeffrey S. Shima et al.   Emerging Topics in Life Sciences

Parents exposed to warming produce offspring lower in weight and condition

(2022) Rachel K. Spinks et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Effects of artificial light at night on the feeding behaviour of three marine benthic grazers from the Adriatic Sea are species-specific and mostly short-lived

(2022) Franz Bauer et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Lunar rhythms in growth of larval fish

(2021) Jeffrey S. Shima et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Light wavelength and intensity effects on larval settlement in the Pacific oyster Magallana gigas

(2021) Hee-Jin Kim et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Artificial light at night alters the settlement of acorn barnacles on a man-made habitat in Atlantic Canada

(2021) K. Devon Lynn et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Two hundred years of zooplankton vertical migration research

(2021) Kanchana Bandara et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Artificial light at night interacts with predatory threat to alter reef fish metabolite profiles

(2021) Katie E. Hillyer et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Effects of artificial light at night and predator cues on foraging and predator avoidance in the keystone inshore mollusc Concholepas concholepas

(2021) Patricio H. Manríquez et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

The influence of spectral composition of artificial light at night on clownfish reproductive success

(2021) Emily K. Fobert et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Moderately elevated temperatures increase macroalgal food consumption in two sea urchin species from coastal waters of Madeira

(2021) Joana Roma et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Artificial Light at Night (ALAN) negatively affects the settlement success of two prominent intertidal barnacles in the southeast Pacific

(2021) Karen Manríquez et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Moonrise timing is key for synchronized spawning in coral Dipsastraea speciosa

(2021) Che-Hung Lin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Long-term exposure to artificial light at night in the wild decreases survival and growth of a coral reef fish

(2021) Jules Schligler et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Wavelength-dependent effects of artificial light at night on phytoplankton growth and community structure

(2021) Christina Diamantopoulou et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Marine artificial light at night: An empirical and technical guide

(2021) Svenja Tidau et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Pelagic organisms avoid white, blue, and red artificial light from scientific instruments

(2021) Maxime Geoffroy et al.   Scientific Reports

The Endosymbiotic Coral Algae Symbiodiniaceae Are Sensitive to a Sensory Pollutant: Artificial Light at Night, ALAN

(2021) Inbal Ayalon et al.   Frontiers in Physiology

Plasticity to ocean warming is influenced by transgenerational, reproductive, and developmental exposure in a coral reef fish

(2021) Moisés A. Bernal et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Persistence of seaweed forests in the anthropocene will depend on warming and marine heatwave profiles

(2021) Sandra C. Straub et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

A Systematic Review of Research Investigating the Combined Ecological Impact of Anthropogenic Noise and Artificial Light at Night

(2021) Wouter Halfwerk et al.   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Effects of Light Pollution on the Early Life Stages of the Most Abundant Northern Red Sea Coral

(2020) Raz Tamir et al.   Microorganisms

Reproductive phenology across the lunar cycle: parental decisions, offspring responses, and consequences for reef fish

(2020) Jeffrey S. Shima et al.   ECOLOGY

Fish body sizes change with temperature but not all species shrink with warming

(2020) Asta Audzijonyte et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Biologically important artificial light at night on the seafloor

(2020) Thomas W. Davies et al.   Scientific Reports

Echinometra sea urchins on Caribbean coral reefs: Diel and lunar cycles of movement and feeding, densities, and morphology

(2020) M.J. Shulman   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Coral Gametogenesis Collapse under Artificial Light Pollution

(2020) Inbal Ayalon et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The ecology of temperate reefs in a changing world

(2020) BD Russell   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Moonlight cycles synchronize oyster behaviour

(2019) Laura Payton et al.   Biology Letters

Future climate change is predicted to affect the microbiome and condition of habitat-forming kelp

(2019) Zhiguang Qiu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

(2019) Emmanuel Desouhant et al.   ENTOMOLOGIA EXPERIMENTALIS ET APPLICATA

Artificial light at night causes reproductive failure in clownfish

(2019) Emily K. Fobert et al.   Biology Letters

Coral reef ecosystem functioning: eight core processes and the role of biodiversity

(2019) Simon J Brandl et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Red Sea corals under Artificial Light Pollution at Night (ALAN) undergo oxidative stress and photosynthetic impairment

(2019) Inbal Ayalon et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Live fast, die young: Behavioural and physiological impacts of light pollution on a marine fish during larval recruitment

(2019) J.J. O'Connor et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Breakdown in spawning synchrony: A silent threat to coral persistence

(2019) Tom Shlesinger et al.   SCIENCE

Sea urchin control of macroalgal communities across a productivity gradient

(2019) N. Kriegisch et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Artificial Light at Night Causes Top-down and Bottom-up Trophic Effects on Invertebrate Populations

(2018) Jonathan Bennie et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Hormonally mediated effects of artificial light at night on behavior and fitness: linking endocrine mechanisms with function

(2018) Jenny Q. Ouyang et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Use of an Autonomous Surface Vehicle reveals small-scale diel vertical migrations of zooplankton and susceptibility to light pollution under low solar irradiance

(2018) Martin Ludvigsen et al.   Science Advances

Endogenous cycles, activity patterns and energy expenditure of an intertidal fish is modified by artificial light pollution at night (ALAN)

(2018) José Pulgar et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Trophic compensation stabilizes marine primary producers exposed to artificial light at night

(2018) E Maggi et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Changes in temperature alter the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

(2018) Francisca C. García et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Does the Lunar Cycle Affect Reef Fish Catch Rates?

(2017) J. R. Pulver   NORTH AMERICAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES MANAGEMENT

Coastal urban lighting has ecological consequences for multiple trophic levels under the sea

(2017) D. Bolton et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Moonlight Drives Ocean-Scale Mass Vertical Migration of Zooplankton during the Arctic Winter

(2016) Kim S. Last et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The new world atlas of artificial night sky brightness

(2016) F. Falchi et al.   Science Advances

Night-time lighting alters the composition of marine epifaunal communities

(2015) T. W. Davies et al.   Biology Letters

Pollution going multimodal: the complex impact of the human-altered sensory environment on animal perception and performance

(2015) W. Halfwerk et al.   Biology Letters

Species Richness on Coral Reefs and the Pursuit of Convergent Global Estimates

(2015) Rebecca Fisher et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Effects of light pollution on the emergent fauna of shallow marine ecosystems: Amphipods as a case study

(2015) Carlos Navarro-Barranco et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Effect of temperature and light on the growth of algae species: A review

(2015) S.P. Singh et al.   RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

Differential responses of coral larvae to the colour of ambient light guide them to suitable settlement microhabitat

(2015) Marie E. Strader et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Future Coastal Population Growth and Exposure to Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Flooding - A Global Assessment

(2015) Barbara Neumann et al.   PLoS One

Acclimation and adaptation to common marine pollutants in the copepod Tigriopus californicus

(2014) Patrick Y. Sun et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

The nature, extent, and ecological implications of marine light pollution

(2014) Thomas W Davies et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Potential effects of artificial light associated with anthropogenic infrastructure on the abundance and foraging behaviour of estuary-associated fishes

(2012) Alistair Becker et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

The lunar cycle determines availability of coral-reef fishes at fish markets

(2012) A. R. Bos et al.   JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY

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

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

The spectral quality of light is a key driver of photosynthesis and photoadaptation in Stylophora pistillata colonies from different depths in the Red Sea

(2010) T. Mass et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Increased rate of D1 repair in coral symbionts during bleaching is insufficient to counter accelerated photo-inactivation

(2010) Ross Hill et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Systematic and Biogeographical Patterns in the Reproductive Biology of Scleractinian Corals

(2009) Andrew H. Baird et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Interactive and cumulative effects of multiple human stressors in marine systems

(2008) Caitlin Mullan Crain et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The effect of irradiance on long-term skeletal growth and net photosynthesis in Galaxea fascicularis under four light conditions

(2008) Miriam Schutter et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY