Global trends in exposure to light pollution in natural terrestrial ecosystems
This is a freely-available open access publication. Please cite the published version which is available via the DOI link in this record. The rapid growth in electric light usage across the globe has led to increasing presence of artificial light in natural and semi-natural ecosystems at night. This...
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ftunivexeter:oai:ore.exeter.ac.uk:10871/18584 2024-09-09T19:26:52+00:00 Global trends in exposure to light pollution in natural terrestrial ecosystems Bennie, Jonathan Duffy, James P. Davies, Thomas W. Correa-Cano, ME Gaston, Kevin J. 2015 http://hdl.handle.net/10871/18584 https://doi.org/10.3390/rs70302715 en eng MDPI http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/7/3/2715 Remote Sensing, 2015, Vol. 7 (3), pp. 2715 - 2730 doi:10.3390/rs70302715 268504 http://hdl.handle.net/10871/18584 2072-4292 Remote Sensing © 2015 by the authors, licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Biome Landcover Night Photopollution Urbanisation Article 2015 ftunivexeter https://doi.org/10.3390/rs70302715 2024-07-29T03:24:15Z This is a freely-available open access publication. Please cite the published version which is available via the DOI link in this record. The rapid growth in electric light usage across the globe has led to increasing presence of artificial light in natural and semi-natural ecosystems at night. This occurs both due to direct illumination and skyglow - scattered light in the atmosphere. There is increasing concern about the effects of artificial light on biological processes, biodiversity and the functioning of ecosystems. We combine intercalibrated Defense Meteorological Satellite Program's Operational Linescan System (DMSP/OLS) images of stable night-time lights for the period 1992 to 2012 with a remotely sensed landcover product (GLC2000) to assess recent changes in exposure to artificial light at night in 43 global ecosystem types. We find that Mediterranean-climate ecosystems have experienced the greatest increases in exposure, followed by temperate ecosystems. Boreal, Arctic and montane systems experienced the lowest increases. In tropical and subtropical regions, the greatest increases are in mangroves and subtropical needleleaf and mixed forests, and in arid regions increases are mainly in forest and agricultural areas. The global ecosystems experiencing the greatest increase in exposure to artificial light are already localized and fragmented, and often of particular conservation importance due to high levels of diversity, endemism and rarity. Night time remote sensing can play a key role in identifying the extent to which natural ecosystems are exposed to light pollution. European Research Council/ European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic University of Exeter: Open Research Exeter (ORE) Arctic Remote Sensing 7 3 2715 2730 |
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This is a freely-available open access publication. Please cite the published version which is available via the DOI link in this record. The rapid growth in electric light usage across the globe has led to increasing presence of artificial light in natural and semi-natural ecosystems at night. This occurs both due to direct illumination and skyglow - scattered light in the atmosphere. There is increasing concern about the effects of artificial light on biological processes, biodiversity and the functioning of ecosystems. We combine intercalibrated Defense Meteorological Satellite Program's Operational Linescan System (DMSP/OLS) images of stable night-time lights for the period 1992 to 2012 with a remotely sensed landcover product (GLC2000) to assess recent changes in exposure to artificial light at night in 43 global ecosystem types. We find that Mediterranean-climate ecosystems have experienced the greatest increases in exposure, followed by temperate ecosystems. Boreal, Arctic and montane systems experienced the lowest increases. In tropical and subtropical regions, the greatest increases are in mangroves and subtropical needleleaf and mixed forests, and in arid regions increases are mainly in forest and agricultural areas. The global ecosystems experiencing the greatest increase in exposure to artificial light are already localized and fragmented, and often of particular conservation importance due to high levels of diversity, endemism and rarity. Night time remote sensing can play a key role in identifying the extent to which natural ecosystems are exposed to light pollution. European Research Council/ European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) |
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