Artificial light at night: A research field in action.

More strikingly, for common nighthawks, "outside of urban areas, where artificial light levels don't get that high, even a small increase in artificial light corresponded to a 55% decline in the number of nesting nighthawks", says Adams. "Bats don't perceive red light as intense as the blue light", says Spoelstra, due to their eye sensitivity. In a 2021 review for I Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution i , Spoelstra, Longcore, and nine others summarized 11 of the pressing research questions: How do we harmonize light measurement methods across disciplines? The sun has long set as we descend from the benchlands, a low ridge paralleling Jasper, the picturesque town clinging to a straightaway of railway tracks against a backdrop of jagged Rocky Mountain peaks. [Extracted from the article]

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