Artificial light at night decreases plant diversity and performance in experimental grassland communities

SF Bucher, L Uhde, A Weigelt… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… in communities as well as of plant communities themselves to … To test the effect of night
light exposure on plant community … ALAN for a model grassland community sown in the iDiv …

Artificial light at night alters grassland vegetation species composition and phenology

J Bennie, TW Davies, D Cruse, F Bell… - Journal of applied …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
… of the findings of this study, and in the absence of a clear understanding of the scope, spectral
sensitivity and intensity thresholds of impacts of artificial light on vegetation communities, it …

Cascading effects of artificial light at night: resource-mediated control of herbivores in a grassland ecosystem

J Bennie, TW Davies, D Cruse… - … Transactions of the …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Artificial light at night has a wide range of biological effects … artificial light at night may
restructure ecological communities by … bottom-up effects of artificial light at night on the population …

How ecological communities respond to artificial light at night

D Sanders, KJ Gaston - Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
communities to artificial light at night. The most well-known impact is the attraction of aerial
invertebrates to artificial lighting through flight-to-light … An attraction to artificially lit areas has …

Artificial light at night disrupts species interactions and changes insect communities

M Grubisic, RHA van Grunsven - Current Opinion in Insect Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Communities from open habitats like grasslands are more exposed to ALAN, but nocturnal
grassland insects might be less sensitive to light … like forests because natural light levels they …

Long‐term effects of artificial nighttime lighting and trophic complexity on plant biomass and foliar carbon and nitrogen in a grassland community

V Anic, KJ Gaston, TW Davies… - Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
artificial light at night had no general effects on plant biomass responses in experimental
grassland communities… and allocation in mixed plant communities are suggested by our findings…

Artificial light at night causes top‐down and bottom‐up trophic effects on invertebrate populations

J Bennie, TW Davies, D Cruse, R Inger… - Journal of Applied …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
… We demonstrate both top-down (predation-controlled) and bottom-up (resource-controlled)
impacts of artificial light at night in grassland communities. The impacts on invertebrate …

Multiple night‐time light‐emitting diode lighting strategies impact grassland invertebrate assemblages

TW Davies, J Bennie, D Cruse, D Blumgart… - Global Change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
… using either LEDs or night-time artificial light more generally. … into a previously artificial light
naïve grassland ecosystem, we … ) is an apex predator in grassland invertebrate communities. …

[HTML][HTML] Artificial Light at Night Decreases Phyllosphere Microbial Diversity and Functionality in Grassland Plants

Z Wang, W Peng, X Li, D Zhao, L Chen, Y Yang… - Global Ecology and …, 2024 - Elsevier
… impacts of artificial light at night (ALAN) on plant communities have … grassland plots,
employing two treatments: one with no artificial light at night (control) and another with artificial light

Artificial light at night (ALAN) causes shifts in soil communities and functions

S Cesarz, N Eisenhauer, SF Bucher… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… The plant community consisted of 16 grassland species and was sown and exposed to the
… that artificial light at night (ALAN) has the potential to influence belowground communities