The dark side of street lighting: impacts on moths and evidence for the disruption of nocturnal pollen transport

Global Change Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 697-707

  Macgregor, Callum J ^a,b,c,d   Evans, Darren M ^a,b   Fox, Richard ^c   Pocock, Michael J O ^d  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^c BUTTERFLY CONSERVATION   (United Kingdom)

^d CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ecosystem services; flowers; Lepidoptera; light pollution; population declines; sampling

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FLIGHT ACTIVITY; FLOWER; LIGHT POLLUTION; MOTH; POLLEN; POPULATION DECLINE; SAMPLING;

INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ILLUMINATION; INVERTEBRATE; LIGHT; MOTH; POLLEN; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; INVERTEBRATES; LIGHT; LIGHTING; MOTHS; POLLEN; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84978901305     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13371     Document Type: Article

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