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Impact of artificial light at night on diurnal plant-pollinator interactions

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  • Simone Giavi

    (Agroscope)

  • Colin Fontaine

    (Centre d’Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation, CESCO, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle—CNRS—Sorbonne Université)

  • Eva Knop

    (Agroscope
    University of Zürich)

Abstract

Artificial light at night has rapidly spread around the globe over the last decades. Evidence is increasing that it has adverse effects on the behavior, physiology, and survival of animals and plants with consequences for species interactions and ecosystem functioning. For example, artificial light at night disrupts plant-pollinator interactions at night and this can have consequences for the plant reproductive output. By experimentally illuminating natural plant-pollinator communities during the night using commercial street-lamps we tested whether light at night can also change interactions of a plant-pollinator community during daytime. Here we show that artificial light at night can alter diurnal plant-pollinator interactions, but the direction of the change depends on the plant species. We conclude that the effect of artificial light at night on plant-pollinator interactions is not limited to the night, but can also propagate to the daytime with so far unknown consequences for the pollinator community and the diurnal pollination function and services they provide.

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  • Simone Giavi & Colin Fontaine & Eva Knop, 2021. "Impact of artificial light at night on diurnal plant-pollinator interactions," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 12(1), pages 1-5, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:12:y:2021:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-021-22011-8
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22011-8
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    1. Andy Deprato & Himasha Rao & Hannah Durrington & Robert Maidstone & Ana Adan & Jose Francisco Navarro & Anna Palomar-Cros & Barbara N. Harding & Prasun Haldar & Saibal Moitra & Tanusree Moitra & Lyle , 2022. "The Influence of Artificial Light at Night on Asthma and Allergy, Mental Health, and Cancer Outcomes: A Systematic Scoping Review Protocol," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(14), pages 1-10, July.

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