Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

Artificial nighttime lighting impacts visual ecology links between flowers, pollinators and predators

  • Emmanuelle S. Briolat,
  • Kevin J. Gaston,
  • Jonathan Bennie,
  • Emma J. Rosenfeld,
  • Jolyon Troscianko

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24394-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Artificial light at night is a major way in which humans are altering the environment, impacting the ecology and behaviour of other species. Modelling how nocturnal hawkmoths see and are seen under multiple light sources suggests a range of potentially disruptive impacts on key behaviours.