The impacts of new street light technologies: experimentally testing the effects on bats of changing from low-pressure sodium to white metal halide

• Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
• Main Authors: Stone, Emma Louise, Wakefield, Andrew, Harris, Stephen, Jones, Gareth
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: The Royal Society 2015
• Subjects: Articles; Cornwall; Pipistrellus pipistrellus
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4375367/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25780239; https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2014.0127

Artificial light at night is a major feature of anthropogenic global change and is increasingly recognized as affecting biodiversity, often negatively. On a global scale, newer technology white lights are replacing orange sodium lights to reduce energy waste. In 2009, Cornwall County Council (UK) co...