dc.contributor.author | Davies, Thomas W. | |
dc.contributor.author | Duffy, James P. | |
dc.contributor.author | Bennie, Jonathan | |
dc.contributor.author | Gaston, Kevin J. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-06-30T10:51:11Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
dc.description.abstract | Many marine ecosystems are shaped by regimes of natural light guiding the behaviour of their constituent species. As evidenced from terrestrial systems, the global introduction of nighttime lighting is likely influencing these behaviours, restructuring marine ecosystems, and compromising the services they provide. Yet the extent to which marine habitats are exposed to artificial light at night is unknown. We quantified nightime artificial light across the world's network of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). Artificial light is widespread and increasing in a large percentage of MPAs. While increases are more common among MPAs associated with human activity, artificial light is encroaching into a large proportion of even those marine habitats protected with the strongest legislative designations. Given the current lack of statutory tools, we propose that allocating ‘marine dark sky park’ status to MPAs will help incentivize responsible authorities to hold back the advance of artificial light. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/conl.12191 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 268504 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/17713 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Wiley for Society for Conservation Biology | en_GB |
dc.rights | Copyright © 2015 The Authors. Conservation Letters published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Society for Conservation Biology
This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | en_GB |
dc.subject | Anthropogenic disturbance | en_GB |
dc.subject | Artificial light | en_GB |
dc.subject | Marine ecosystems | en_GB |
dc.subject | Marine protected areas | en_GB |
dc.subject | Pollution | en_GB |
dc.title | Stemming the tide of light pollution encroaching into Marine Protected Areas | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2015-06-30T10:51:11Z | |
dc.description | Open Access journal | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1755-263X | |
dc.identifier.journal | Conservation Letters | en_GB |