Effects of dimming light-emitting diode street lights on light-opportunistic and light-averse bats in suburban habitats ...
(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Emerging lighting technologies provide opportunities for reducing carbon footprints, and for biodiversity conservation. In addition to installing light-emitting diode street lights, many local authorities are also dimming street lights. This might b...
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Zenodo
2018
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13431593 https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.13431593 |
| Summary: | (Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Emerging lighting technologies provide opportunities for reducing carbon footprints, and for biodiversity conservation. In addition to installing light-emitting diode street lights, many local authorities are also dimming street lights. This might benefit light-averse bat species by creating dark refuges for these bats to forage and commute in human-dominated habitats. We conducted a field experiment to determine how light intensity affects the activity of the light-opportunistic Pipistrellus pipistrellus and light-averse bats in the genus Myotis. We used four lighting levels controlled under a central management system at existing street lights in a suburban environment (0, 25, 50 and 100% of the original output). Higher light intensities (50 and 100% of original output) increased the activity of light-opportunistic species but reduced the activity of light-averse bats. Compared to the unlit treatment, the 25% lighting level did not significantly affect ... |
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