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Anthropo Snips are a quick look at new(ish) interesting papers and concepts related to anthropogenic impacts on natural ecosystems.

Today’s Paper

A look at how artificial light at night, or ALAN, is actually even worse than we thought it was (yay?), enjoy!

Kevin J Gaston, Simone Ackermann, Jonathan Bennie, Daniel T C Cox, Benjamin B Phillips, Alejandro Sánchez de Miguel, Dirk Sanders, Pervasiveness of Biological Impacts of Artificial Light at Night, Integrative and Comparative Biology, Volume 61, Issue 3, October 2021, Pages 1098–1110, https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icab145

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Other interesting papers about ALAN and its impacts

A meta-analysis of biological impacts of artificial light at night. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-020-01322-x

Impact of Different Wavelengths of Artificial Light at Night on Phototaxis in Aquatic Insects

https://academic.oup.com/icb/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/icb/icab149/6310577?redirectedFrom=fulltext#

Impacts of artificial lighting at night on insect conservation. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/icad.12490

Artificial light at night at the terrestrial-aquatic interface: Effects on predators and fluxes of insect prey- https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0240138

Impact of Different Wavelengths of Artificial Light at Night on Phototaxis in Aquatic Insects. https://academic.oup.com/icb/article-abstract/61/3/1182/6310577?redirectedFrom=fulltext

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