[2311.02098] Artificial light at night: a global disruptor of the night-time environment

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Title:Artificial light at night: a global disruptor of the night-time environment

Authors:Salvador Bará, Fabio Falchi<br>View a PDF of the paper titled Artificial light at night: a global disruptor of the night-time environment, by Salvador Bar\'a and 1 other authors

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Abstract:Light pollution is the alteration of the natural levels of darkness by an increased concentration of light particles in the nighttime environment, resulting from human activity. Light pollution is changing in a deep way the environmental conditions of the night in wide areas of the planet, and is a relevant stressor whose effects on life are being unveiled by a compelling body of research. In this paper we briefly review the basic aspects of artificial light at night as a pollutant, describing its character, magnitude and extent, its worldwide distribution, its temporal and spectral change trends, as well as its dependence on current light production technologies and prevailing social uses of light. It is shown that the overall effects of light pollution are not restricted to local disturbances, but give rise to a global, multiscale disruption of the nighttime environment.

Comments:<br>10 pages, 1 figure. Author accepted version of a paper published in Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2311.02098

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Journal reference:<br>Bará S, Falchi F. 2023. Artificial light at night: a global disruptor of the night-time environment. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 378: 20220352

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https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0352

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Submission history<br>From: Salvador Bará [view email]<br>[v1]<br>Mon, 30 Oct 2023 14:56:24 UTC (599 KB)

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