Kamiel Spoelstra, Sven Teurlincx, Matthijs Courbois, Zoë M Hopkins, Marcel E Visser, Therésa M Jones, Gareth R Hopkins
Our planet endures a progressive increase in artificial light at night (ALAN), which affects virtually all species, and thereby biodiversity. Mitigation strategies include reducing its intensity and duration, and the adjustment of light spectrum using modern light emitting diode (LED) light sources. Here, we studied ground-dwelling invertebrate (predominantly insects, arachnids, molluscs, millipedes, woodlice and worms) diversity and community composition after 3 or 4 years of continued nightly exposure (every night from sunset to sunrise) to experimental ALAN with three different spectra (white-, and green- and red-dominated light), as well as for a dark control, in natural forest-edge habitat...
December 18, 2023: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences