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

Lunar rhythms in growth of larval fish

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

Two hundred years of zooplankton vertical migration research

(2021) Kanchana Bandara et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Cloudiness reduces the bleaching response of coral reefs exposed to heat stress

(2021) Pedro C. Gonzalez‐Espinosa et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

Finding Nemo’s clock reveals switch from nocturnal to diurnal activity

(2021) Gregor Schalm et al.   Scientific Reports

Contrasting Observed Atmospheric Responses to Tropical Sea Surface Temperature Warming Patterns

(2021) Anna Mackie et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES

Cloud shadows drive vertical migrations of deep-dwelling marine life

(2021) Melissa M. Omand et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

First Estimation of Global Trends in Nocturnal Power Emissions Reveals Acceleration of Light Pollution

(2021) Alejandro Sánchez de Miguel et al.   Remote Sensing

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

(2021) Inbal Ayalon et al.   Frontiers in Physiology

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

(2020) Jeffrey S. Shima et al.   ECOLOGY

Seasonal, lunar, and diel patterns in spawning by the giant barrel sponge, Xestospongia muta

(2020) K. L. Neely et al.   CORAL REEFS

Coral Gametogenesis Collapse under Artificial Light Pollution

(2020) Inbal Ayalon et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Large deep-sea zooplankton biomass mirrors primary production in the global ocean

(2020) S. Hernández-León et al.   Nature Communications

Modeling the impact of zooplankton diel vertical migration on the carbon export flux of the biological pump

(2019) Kevin M. Archibald et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Nighttime Ecology: The “Nocturnal Problem” Revisited

(2019) Kevin J. Gaston   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Artificial light at night causes reproductive failure in clownfish

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

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

(2019) Inbal Ayalon et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Delivery of zooplankton to the surf zone during strong internal tidal forcing and onshore winds in Baja California

(2019) RG Fernández-Aldecoa et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

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

Global satellite-observed daily vertical migrations of ocean animals

(2019) Michael J. Behrenfeld et al.   NATURE

Mesopelagic fishes dominate otolith record of past two millennia in the Santa Barbara Basin

(2019) William A. Jones et al.   Nature Communications

Thermal plasticity is independent of environmental history in an intertidal seaweed

(2019) Sophie J. McCoy et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Split spawning realigns coral reproduction with optimal environmental windows

(2018) Taryn Foster et al.   Nature Communications

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

Enhanced fast-start performance and anti-predator behaviour in a coral reef fish in response to suspended sediment exposure

(2018) Sybille Hess et al.   CORAL REEFS

Evaluating the Potential Impacts of the Diurnal Vertical Migration by Marine Organisms on Marine Biogeochemistry

(2018) Olivier Aumont et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Nutrient fluxes into an isolated coral reef atoll by tidally driven internal bores

(2018) Rebecca H. Green et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Climate change impact on future photovoltaic resource potential in an orographically complex archipelago, the Canary Islands

(2018) Juan C. Pérez et al.   RENEWABLE ENERGY

Relationship of tropospheric stability to climate sensitivity and Earth’s observed radiation budget

(2017) Paulo Ceppi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Global effects of moon phase on nocturnal acoustic scattering layers

(2016) PK Prihartato et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Global effects of moon phase on nocturnal acoustic scattering layers

(2016) PK Prihartato et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Vertical distribution and ontogenetic "migration" in coral reef fish larvae

(2016) Jean-Olivier Irisson et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Large scale patterns in vertical distribution and behaviour of mesopelagic scattering layers

(2016) T. A. Klevjer et al.   Scientific Reports

Decrease in water clarity of the southern and central North Sea during the 20th century

(2015) Elisa Capuzzo et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Nonlinear effects of body size and optical attenuation on Diel Vertical Migration by zooplankton

(2015) Mark D. Ohman et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

The strength of the tropical inversion and its response to climate change in 18 CMIP5 models

(2014) Xin Qu et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

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

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

Multispecies spawning sites for fishes on a low-latitude coral reef: spatial and temporal patterns

(2014) J. A. B. Claydon et al.   JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY

Characteristics of Settling Coral Reef Fish Are Related to Recruitment Timing and Success

(2014) Tauna L. Rankin et al.   PLoS One

Large mesopelagic fishes biomass and trophic efficiency in the open ocean

(2014) Xabier Irigoien et al.   Nature Communications

The ecological impacts of nighttime light pollution: a mechanistic appraisal

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

Vision and the light environment

(2013) Eric J. Warrant et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Chronobiology by moonlight

(2013) N. Kronfeld-Schor et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Diet of five species of the family Myctophidae caught off the Mariana Islands

(2012) Joel E. Van Noord   ICHTHYOLOGICAL RESEARCH

To fear or to feed: the effects of turbidity on perception of risk by a marine fish

(2011) S. M. Leahy et al.   Biology Letters

Micronekton abundance and biomass in Hawaiian waters as influenced by seamounts, eddies, and the moon

(2011) Jeffrey C. Drazen et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS

Nocturnal light and lunar cycle effects on diel migration of micronekton

(2011) Kelly J. Benoit-Bird et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

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

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

POTENTIAL FITNESS TRADE-OFFS FOR THERMAL TOLERANCE IN THE INTERTIDAL COPEPOD TIGRIOPUS CALIFORNICUS

(2010) Christopher S. Willett   EVOLUTION

Cascading migrations and implications for vertical fluxes in pelagic ecosystems

(2010) S. M. Bollens et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH

Spatial variation in larval growth and gut fullness in a coral reef fish

(2009) S Sponaugle et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Coastal water darkening and implications for mesopelagic regime shifts in Norwegian fjords

(2009) DL Aksnes et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Variability in the trophic role of coral reef fish larvae in the oceanic plankton

(2009) JK Llopiz et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Larval Dispersal and Marine Population Connectivity

(2008) Robert K. Cowen et al.   Annual Review of Marine Science

Latitudinal gradients of biologically useful semi-darkness

(2008) Alexander M. Mills   ECOGRAPHY

Natural variability of fisheries and lunar illumination: a hypothesis

(2008) Santiago Hernández-León   FISH AND FISHERIES