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, E., Wakefield, A., Harris, S., Jones, G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: The Royal Society 2015
• Subjects: Cornwall; Pipistrellus pipistrellus
• Online Access: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/38119/; 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...