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Ecological consequences of artificial night lighting
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Ecological consequences of artificial night lighting

Author: Catherine Rich; Travis Longcore
Publisher: Washington, DC : Island Press, ©2006.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Catherine Rich; Travis Longcore
ISBN: 1559631287 9781559631280 1559631295 9781559631297
OCLC Number: 61169646
Description: xx, 458 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Introduction / Catherin Rich and Travis Longcore -- Part I. Mammals: Night, Venezuela / Alexander von Humboldt -- Effects of artificial night lighting on terrestrial mammals / Paul Beier -- Bats and their insect prey at streetlights / Jens Rydell -- Part II. Birds: Night, Maine woods / Bernd Heinrich -- Effects of artificial night lighting on migrating birds / Sidney A. Gauthreaux Jr. and Carroll G. Belser -- Influences of artificial light on marine birds / William A. Montevecchi -- Road lighting and grassland birds: local influence of road lighting on a black-tailed godwit population / Johannes G. de Molenaar, Maria E. Sanders, and Dick A. Jonkers -- Part III. Reptiles and amphibians: Night, Tortuguero / David Ehrenfeld -- Portecting sea turtles from artificial night lighting at Florida's oceanic beaches / Michael Salmon -- Night lights and reptiles: observed and potential effects / Gad Perry and Robert N. Fisher -- Observed and potential effects of artificial night lighting on anuran amphibians / Bryant W. Buchanan -- Influence of artificial illumination on the nocturnal behavior and physiology of salamanders -- Sharon E. Wise and Bryant W. Buchanan -- Part IV. Fishes: Night Atlantic / Carl Safina -- Artificial night lighting and fishes / Barbara Nightingale, Travis Longcore, and Charles A. Simenstad -- Part V. Invertebrates: Night, tropics / Philip J. Devries -- Artificial night lighting and insects: attraction of insects to streetlamps in a rural setting in Germany / Gerhard Eisenbeis -- Effects of artificial night lighting on moths / Kenneth D. Frank -- Stray light, fireflies, and fireflyers / James E. Lloyd -- Artificial light at night in freshwater habitats and its potential ecological effects / Marianne V. Moore, Susan J. Kohler, and Melani S. Cheers -- Part VI. Plants: Night, Massachusetts / Henry David Thoreau -- Physiology of plant responses to artificial lighting / Winslow R. Briggs -- Synthesis / Travis Longcore and Catherine Rich.
Responsibility: edited by Catherine Rich, Travis Longcore.
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