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Editorial
. 2018 Oct;329(8-9):387-393.
doi: 10.1002/jez.2241.

Artificial light at night as an environmental pollutant: An integrative approach across taxa, biological functions, and scientific disciplines

Davide M Dominoni  1   2 , Randy J Nelson  3
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Editorial

Artificial light at night as an environmental pollutant: An integrative approach across taxa, biological functions, and scientific disciplines

Davide M Dominoni et al. J Exp Zool A Ecol Integr Physiol. 2018 Oct.
No abstract available

Keywords: artificial light at night (ALAN); circadian rhythms; light pollution; sky glow; urbanization.

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FIGURE 1
Large -scale, long-term field experiments aimed at investigating the effects of realistic scenarios of light pollution on ecosystems have been established in the last decade. The picture shows one of these setups at the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, in Berlin, Germany. From van Grunsven et al., this issue (Image courtesy of Maja Grubisic) [Color figure can be viewed at wileyonlinelibrary.com]
FIGURE 2
FIGURE 2
The impact of artificial light at night on the behavior and physiology of individual species is increasingly studied via field experiments. the picture illustrates one of these experiments, which was aimed at testing the effect of different light spectra on the colony attendance of little penguins (Eudyptula minor). From Rodriguez et al, this issue (Image courtesy of Beneharo Rodríguez) [Color figure can be viewed at wileyonlinelibrary.com]
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