The present review draws together wide-ranging studies performed over the last decades that catalogue the effects of artificial-light-at-night (ALAN) upon living species and their environment.
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Artificial light at night can have synergistic harmful effects when combined with other anthropogenic pressures, often impacting vertebrate neuroendocrine loops.
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We stress, through a few examples, the synergistic harmful effects resulting from the impacts of ALAN combined with other anthropogenic pressures, which often impact the neuroendocrine loops in vertebrates.
Because hormonal synthesis and secretion are often under circadian and circannual control, perturbation of biological clocks by artificial light at night can lead to hormonal imbalance.
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Especially, hormonal synthesis and secretion are often under circadian and circannual control, hence perturbation of the clock will lead to hormonal imbalance.
Disruption of phototropism, phototaxis, photoperiodism, and circadian clock synchronization underlies much of the disruptive effects of artificial light at night.
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We discuss how organisms use light information in a way crucial for their development, growth and survival: phototropism, phototaxis, photoperiodism, and synchronization of circadian clocks. These aspects are treated in depth, as their perturbation underlies much of the disruptive effects of ALAN.
Artificial light at night perturbs many aspects of plant and animal behavior and survival and has consequences that extend from individuals and populations to ecosystems.
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Numerous examples are given of how widespread exposure to ALAN is perturbing many aspects of plant and animal behaviour and survival: foraging, orientation, migration, seasonal reproduction, colonization and more. We examine the potential problems at the level of individual species and populations and extend the debate to the consequences for ecosystems.