Artificial light at night as a new threat to pollination

Nature

Volumn 548, Issue 7666, 2017, Pages 206-209

  Knop, Eva ^a   Zoller, Leana ^a   Ryser, Remo ^a   Gerpe, Christopher ^a   Hörler, Maurin ^a   Fontaine, Colin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LIGHT; LIGHT POLLUTION; NOCTURNAL ACTIVITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; POLLINATION; POPULATION DECLINE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; DARKNESS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FRUIT SET; LIGHT; LIGHT INTENSITY; NONHUMAN; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT GROWTH; POLLINATION; POLLINATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; FLOWER; FRUIT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; ILLUMINATION; INSECT; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; POLLUTION; RADIATION RESPONSE; REPRODUCTION; SWITZERLAND;

ANIMALS; DARKNESS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; FLOWERS; FRUIT; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; INSECTA; LIGHTING; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; POLLINATION; REPRODUCTION; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 85027335589     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature23288     Document Type: Article

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