Global trends in exposure to light pollution in natural terrestrial ecosystems

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 2715-2730

  Bennie, Jonathan ^a   Duffy, James P ^a   Davies, Thomas W ^a   Correa Cano, Maria Eugenia ^a   Gaston, Kevin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biome; Landcover; Night; Photopollution; Urbanisation

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ELECTRIC LIGHTING; FORESTRY; POLLUTION; REMOTE SENSING; TROPICS;

BIOME; LAND COVER; NIGHT; PHOTOPOLLUTION; URBANISATION;

ECOSYSTEMS;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEMS; LIGHT; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

EID: 84926292953     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70302715     Document Type: Article

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