Ecological consequences of artificial night lighting

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.