Does light pollution alter daylength? A test using light loggers on free-ranging european blackbirds (turdus merula)

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1667, 2015, Pages

  Dominoni, Davide M ^a   Partecke, Jesko ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Artificial light at night; Daylength; Light loggers; Light pollution; Photoperiod; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HABITAT TYPE; LIGHT POLLUTION; MATURATION; PASSERINE; PHOTOPERIOD; POLLUTION EFFECT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THRESHOLD; URBANIZATION;

EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; TURDUS MERULA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DEVICES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LIGHT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PASSERIFORMES; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLUTION; PROCEDURES;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CIRCADIAN CLOCKS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; LIGHT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PASSERIFORMES; PHOTOPERIOD;

EID: 84924873046     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0118     Document Type: Article

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