Artificial light pollution: Are shifting spectral signatures changing the balance of species interactions?

Global Change Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1417-1423

  Davies, Thomas W ^a   Bennie, Jonathan ^a   Inger, Richard ^a   de Ibarra, Natalie Hempel ^a   Gaston, Kevin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animals; Artificial light spectra; Pollution; Species interactions; Street lighting; Vision ecology

Indexed keywords

VISUAL PIGMENT;

LIGHT POLLUTION; POLLUTION EFFECT; TAXONOMY; VISUAL CUE;

ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; ILLUMINATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UNITED KINGDOM; VERTEBRATE; VISION;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; ECOSYSTEM; ENGLAND; LIGHTING; MARKOV CHAINS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, INVERTEBRATE; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETINAL PIGMENTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VERTEBRATES; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; AVES; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA;

EID: 84875820065     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12166     Document Type: Article

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