Research Catalog

Title

Ecological consequences of artificial night lighting / edited by Catherine Rich, Travis Longcore.

Publication

Washington, DC : Island Press, c2006.

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Additional Authors

• Rich, Catherine.
• Longcore, Travis.

Description

xx, 458 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Exterior lighting > Environmental aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JSE 06-1284

ISBN

• 1559631287 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 1559631295 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2005020202

OCLC

61169646

Title

Ecological consequences of artificial night lighting / edited by Catherine Rich, Travis Longcore.

Imprint

Washington, DC : Island Press, c2006.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents only

Publisher description

Added Author

Rich, Catherine.

Longcore, Travis.

Research Call Number

JSE 06-1284