[HTML][HTML] To improve or not to improve? The dilemma of “bat-friendly” farmland potentially becoming an ecological trap

D Russo, K Tanalgo, H Rebelo, L Cistrone - Agriculture, Ecosystems & …, 2024 - Elsevier
Conventional agriculture occupies a substantial portion of Earth's terrestrial surface and
adversely affects biodiversity through pesticide spread, mechanisation, and loss of spatial …

[HTML][HTML] Towards a mechanistic understanding of the effects of artificial light at night on insect populations and communities

R Kehoe, D Sanders, FJF van Veen - Current Opinion in Insect Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•Artificial light at night (ALAN) impacts insects far beyond the immediate vicinity of
light sources.•By affecting species interactions, the impact of ALAN spreads through …

Outdoor light at night in relation to glucose homoeostasis and diabetes in Chinese adults: a national and cross-sectional study of 98,658 participants from 162 study …

R Zheng, Z Xin, M Li, T Wang, M Xu, J Lu, M Dai… - Diabetologia, 2023 - Springer
Aims/hypothesis Exposure to artificial light at night (LAN) disrupts the circadian timing
system and might be a risk factor for diabetes. Our aim was to estimate the associations of …

Artificial light impacts the mate success of female fireflies

ACS Owens, SM Lewis - Royal Society Open Science, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Anthropogenic light pollution is a novel environmental disruption that affects the movement,
foraging and mating behaviour of nocturnal animals. Most of these effects are sublethal, and …

[HTML][HTML] Forest bat activity declines with increasing wind speed in proximity of operating wind turbines

JS Ellerbrok, N Farwig, F Peter, CC Voigt - Global Ecology and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The increasing use of onshore wind energy is leading to an increased deployment of wind
turbines in structurally rich habitats such as forests. Forest-affiliated bats, in turn, are at risk of …

Are citizens willing to accept changes in public lighting for biodiversity conservation?

C Beaudet, L Tardieu, M David - Ecological Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
Light pollution has significantly increased in recent years, in concert with urban sprawl. Light
pollution consequences for nocturnal wildlife, human health, and energy consumption are …

A review of the effects of artificial light at night in urban areas on the ecosystem level and the remedial measures

JM Katabaro, Y Yan, T Hu, Q Yu, X Cheng - Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 - frontiersin.org
This paper attempts to realize the balance between humans and ecology in designing the
nighttime light environment of urban parks by clarifying the influence of nighttime artificial …

Exposure to outdoor artificial light at night increases risk and burden of metabolic disease in Ningxia, China

H Wang, X Ma, Z Yu, N Hu, Y Du, X He, D Pan… - … Science and Pollution …, 2023 - Springer
Abstracts Nearly a quarter of the world's land has already been polluted by artificial light.
And numerous human and animal studies have corroborated that light at night can disrupt …

Landscape composition and orchard management effects on bat assemblages and bat foraging activity in apple crops

M Miñarro, D García - Ecosphere, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Bats are acknowledged as suppliers of essential ecosystem services such as insect pest
control in agroecosystems. Little is known, however, on how bat assemblages respond to …

Manipulating spectra of artificial light affects movement patterns of bats along ecological corridors

K Barré, I Thomas, I Le Viol, K Spoelstra… - Animal …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Animal movement throughout the landscape is a key concept for population viability. Human
footprint can reduce animal movement through barrier effects such as habitat change and …