dc.contributor.author | Smyth, T.J. | |
dc.contributor.author | Wright, A.E. | |
dc.contributor.author | Mckee, David | |
dc.contributor.author | Tidau, S. | |
dc.contributor.author | Tamir, R. | |
dc.contributor.author | Dubinsky, Z. | |
dc.contributor.author | Iluz, D. | |
dc.contributor.author | Davies, T.W. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-02-10T12:05:28Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-02-10T12:05:28Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-12-13 | |
dc.description.abstract | The impacts of artificial light at night (ALAN) on marine ecosystems have emerged as a focus for ecological light pollution research in recent years, yet the global prevalence of ALAN in underwater marine ecosystems is unknown. We have derived a global atlas of ALAN throughout the marine water column that will accelerate our understanding of its sources and environmental impacts. At a depth of 1 m, 1.9 million km2 of the world’s coastal seas are exposed to biologically important ALAN, which equates to around 3.1% of the global exclusive economic zones. This area decreases to 1.6 million km2 (2.7%) at a depth of 10 m, and to 840,000 km2 (1.4%) at 20 m. The most heavily exposed regions are those that experience intensive offshore development in addition to coastal urbanization. The atlas highlights that ALAN as a global change issue is not exclusive to land but is also widespread in the world’s underwater habitats at irradiances that elicit biological responses in marine organisms. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Smyth, Wright, Mckee D, Tidau, Tamir, Dubinsky, Iluz, Davies. A global atlas of artificial light at night under the sea. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene. 2021;9(1):1-13 | en_US |
dc.identifier.cristinID | FRIDAID 1998790 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1525/elementa.2021.00049 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2325-1026 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10037/24006 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | University of California Press | en_US |
dc.relation.journal | Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene | |
dc.rights.accessRights | openAccess | en_US |
dc.rights.holder | Copyright 2021 The Author(s) | en_US |
dc.title | A global atlas of artificial light at night under the sea | en_US |
dc.type.version | publishedVersion | en_US |
dc.type | Journal article | en_US |
dc.type | Tidsskriftartikkel | en_US |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | en_US |