Artificial Light at Night Disrupts Ecosystems, Even at Low Levels, Studies Find
Artificial light at night can disrupt the circadian rhythm of wild animals, interfering with sleep and migratory patterns.
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Artificial light at night can disrupt the circadian rhythm of wild animals, interfering with sleep and migratory patterns.
, 11:542125, 2020. When Josephine Ulrich and colleagues got the chance to work with the iDiv Ecotron, a system of experimental containers in Germany that lets researchers create and manipulate miniature ecosystems, they decided to investigate the effect of declining invertebrate populations on plant communities. Many studies have explored how projected changes in abiotic factors—rising temperatures, for example—influence plants, says Ulrich, a PhD student at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) and Friedrich Schiller University, but to look at biotic factors such...