Remote sensing of night lights: A review and an outlook for the future

N Levin, CCM Kyba, Q Zhang, AS de Miguel… - Remote Sensing of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Remote sensing of night light emissions in the visible band offers a unique opportunity to
directly observe human activity from space. This has allowed a host of applications including …

Pest suppression by bats and management strategies to favour it: a global review

C Tuneu‐Corral, X Puig‐Montserrat… - Biological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Fighting insect pests is a major challenge for agriculture worldwide, and biological control
and integrated pest management constitute well‐recognised, cost‐effective ways to prevent …

Bat detective—Deep learning tools for bat acoustic signal detection

O Mac Aodha, R Gibb, KE Barlow… - PLoS computational …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Passive acoustic sensing has emerged as a powerful tool for quantifying anthropogenic
impacts on biodiversity, especially for echolocating bat species. To better assess bat …

Artificial light at night as a driver of evolution across urban–rural landscapes

GR Hopkins, KJ Gaston, ME Visser… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Light is fundamental to biological systems, affecting the daily rhythms of bacteria, plants, and
animals. Artificial light at night (ALAN), a ubiquitous feature of urbanization, interferes with …

Towards a whole‐system framework for wildfire monitoring using Earth observations

MA Crowley, CA Stockdale, JM Johnston… - Global change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Fire seasons have become increasingly variable and extreme due to changing
climatological, ecological, and social conditions. Earth observation data are critical for …

[HTML][HTML] A plea for a worldwide development of dark infrastructure for biodiversity–Practical examples and ways to go forward

R Sordello, S Busson, JH Cornuau… - Landscape and Urban …, 2022 - Elsevier
Artificial light at night (ALAN) has been massively deployed worldwide and has become a
major environmental pressure for biodiversity, especially contributing to habitat loss and …

Distance to hedgerows drives local repulsion and attraction of wind turbines on bats: Implications for spatial siting

C Leroux, C Kerbiriou, I Le Viol… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The exponential development of wind energy raises concerns regarding its impacts on
airborne biodiversity. Evidence of wind turbine attraction and repulsion on bats, and …

Drivers of bat activity at wind turbines advocate for mitigating bat exposure using multicriteria algorithm-based curtailment

K Barré, JSP Froidevaux, A Sotillo, C Roemer… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Wind turbine development is growing exponentially and faster than other sources of
renewable energy worldwide. While multi-turbine facilities have small physical footprint, they …

Urbanization and agricultural intensification destabilize animal communities differently than diversity loss

T Olivier, E Thébault, M Elias, B Fontaine… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Despite growing concern over consequences of global changes, we still know little about
potential interactive effects of anthropogenic perturbations and diversity loss on the stability …

Evidence for distance and illuminance thresholds in the effects of artificial lighting on bat activity

C Azam, I Le Viol, Y Bas, G Zissis, A Vernet… - Landscape and Urban …, 2018 - Elsevier
Light pollution is a major threat to biodiversity worldwide. There is a crucial need to
elaborate artificial lighting recommendations to mitigate its impact on wildlife. In the present …