Light pollution as a biodiversity threat.

摘要: In a recent TREE article, Sutherland and colleagues [1] used horizon scanning to identify fifteen emerging issues in biodiversity conservation. They discussed both threats opportunities for broad range of issues, including invasive species, synthetic meat, nanosilver microplastic pollution. We recognize that the article was not intended be comprehensive, but feel they overlooked an problem great importance urgency, namely light Although widespread use artificial at night has enhanced quality human life is positively associated with security, wealth modernity, rapid global increase fundamentally transformed nightscapes over past six decades, quantity (6% per year, range: 0–20%) (i.e.