Resources

Research 

Artificial light at night and warming impact grazing rates and gonad index of the sea urchin Centrostephanus rodgersii

Caley, Marzinelli, Byrne and Mayer-Pinto, 2024, Proceedings of the Royal Society B

The impacts of artificial light at night on the ecology of temperate and tropical reefs

Fobert, Miller, Swearer and Mayer-Pinto, 2023, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B

Urban shading and artificial light at night alter natural light regimes and affect marine intertidal assemblages

Trethewy, Dafforn, and Mayer-Pinto, 2023, Marine Pollution Bulletin.

Light pollution: a landscape-scale issue requiring cross-realm consideration

Mayer-Pinto, Jones, Swearer, Robert, Bolton, Aulsebrook, Dafforn, Dickerson, Dimovski, Hubbard, McLay, Pendoley, Poore, Thums, Willmott, Yokochi and Fobert, 2022, UCL Open Environment

Knowledge exchange to improve research and management of the impacts of artificial light at night

Mayer-Pinto, Dafforn, and Fobert, 2020, Austral Ecology.

White and amber light at night disrupt sleep physiology in birds 

Aulsebrook, Farley, Johnsson, Jones, Mulder, Hall, Vyssotski, and Lesku, 2020, Current Biology.

Streetlights disrupt night-time sleep in urban black swans

Aulsebrook, Lesku, Mulder, Goymann, Vyssotski, and Jones, 2020, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 

Artificial light at night causes reproductive failure in clownfish

Fobert, Burke da Silva, and Swearer, 2019, Biology Letters.

Live fast, die young: behavioural and physiological impacts of light pollution on a marine fish during larval recruitment

O’Connor, Fobert, Besson, Jacob, and Lecchini, 2019, Marine Pollution Bulletin.

Guiding lights: foraging responses of juvenile nocturnal orb-weavers to the presence of artificial light at night

Willmott, Henneken, Elgar, and Jones, 2019, Ethology.

High predation of marine turtle hatchlings near a coastal jetty

Wilson, Thums, Pattiaratchi, Whiting, Pendoley, Ferreira, Meekan, 2019, Biological Conservation.

Impacts of artificial light at night on sleep: a review and prospectus

Aulsebrook, Jones, Mulder, and Lesku, 2018, Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology.

Artificial light disrupts the nearshore dispersal of neonate flatback turtles Natator depressus

Wilson, Thums, Pattiaratchi, Meekan, Pendoley, Fisher, Whiting, 2018, Marine Ecology Progress Series.

Dim artificial light at night affects mating, reproductive output, and reactive oxygen species in Drosophila melanogaster

McLay, Nagarajan‐Radha, Green, and Jones, 2018, Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A

Artificial light at night as a driver of evolutionary change across the urban-rural landscape

Hopkins, Gaston, Visser, Elgar, and Jones, 2018, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

Artificial light pollution: shifting spectral wavelengths to mitigate physiological and health consequences in a nocturnal marsupial mammal

Dimovski and Robert, 2018, Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology.

Coastal urban lighting has ecological consequences for multiple trophic levels under the sea

Bolton, Mayer-Pinto, Clark, Dafforn, Brassil, Becker, Johnston, 2017, Science of the Total Environment.

Artificial light at night desynchronizes strictly seasonal reproduction in a wild mammal

Robert, Lesku, Partecke, and Chambers 2015, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

Media and Outreach

Night lights cause severe loss of sleep for pigeons and magpies. New Scientist, 2020.

These fish eggs aren't hatching. The culprit? Light pollution. National Geographic, 2019.

Lights out! Clownfish can only hatch in the dark – which light pollution is taking away. The Conversation, 2019.

Bright city lights are keeping ocean predators awake and hungry. The Conversation, 2016.