Resources
We are a team of highly experienced scientists, comprising academics, government scientists and graduate students.
Many of our members are also great science communicators and would be happy to present their work or talk about light pollution in general to schools, businesses, conferences, etc. If you are interested, please contact us with your request and we will put you in touch with one of our members.
Research
Caley, Marzinelli and Mayer Pinto, 2025, Marine Environmental Research
Isaza, Jones, Wilson, Pendoley, Fossette and Thums, 2025, Biological Conservation
Population variation in physiological and behavioural responses to artificial light at night
McNamara, Fitzgerald, Kim, Rutkowski, Bailey, Jones, 2025, Animal Behaviour
Artificial light at night reduces predation and herbivory rates in a nearshore reef
Yeung, Caley and Mayer-Pinto, 2025, Marine Environmental Research
Antagonistic Effects of Light Pollution and Warming on Habitat‐Forming Seaweeds
Caley, Marzinelli, Byrne and Mayer-Pinto, 2024, Ecology and Evolution
Caley, Marzinelli, Byrne and Mayer-Pinto, 2024, Proceedings of the Royal Society B
Georgiou, Reeves, da Silva and Fobert, 2024, Basic and Applied Ecology
The impacts of artificial light at night on the ecology of temperate and tropical reefs
Fobert, Miller, Swearer and Mayer-Pinto, 2023, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B
Trethewy, Dafforn, and Mayer-Pinto, 2023, Marine Pollution Bulletin.
Light pollution: a landscape-scale issue requiring cross-realm consideration
Mayer-Pinto, Jones, Swearer, Robert, Bolton, Aulsebrook, Dafforn, Dickerson, Dimovski, Hubbard, McLay, Pendoley, Poore, Thums, Willmott, Yokochi and Fobert, 2022, UCL Open Environment
Impacts of artificial light at night in marine ecosystems—A review
Marangoni, Davies, Smyth, Rodríguez, Hamann, Duarte, Pendoley, Berge, Maggi, Levy, 2022, Gobal Change Biology
The influence of spectral composition of artificial light at night on clownfish reproductive success
Fobert, Schubert and da Silva, 2021, Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology
Knowledge exchange to improve research and management of the impacts of artificial light at night
Mayer-Pinto, Dafforn, and Fobert, 2020, Austral Ecology.
White and amber light at night disrupt sleep physiology in birds
Aulsebrook, Farley, Johnsson, Jones, Mulder, Hall, Vyssotski, and Lesku, 2020, Current Biology.
Streetlights disrupt night-time sleep in urban black swans
Aulsebrook, Lesku, Mulder, Goymann, Vyssotski, and Jones, 2020, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.
Artificial light at night causes reproductive failure in clownfish
Fobert, da Silva, and Swearer, 2019, Biology Letters.
O’Connor, Fobert, Besson, Jacob, and Lecchini, 2019, Marine Pollution Bulletin.
Willmott, Henneken, Elgar, and Jones, 2019, Ethology.
High predation of marine turtle hatchlings near a coastal jetty
Wilson, Thums, Pattiaratchi, Whiting, Pendoley, Ferreira, Meekan, 2019, Biological Conservation.
Impacts of artificial light at night on sleep: a review and prospectus
Aulsebrook, Jones, Mulder, and Lesku, 2018, Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology.
Artificial light disrupts the nearshore dispersal of neonate flatback turtles Natator depressus
Wilson, Thums, Pattiaratchi, Meekan, Pendoley, Fisher, Whiting, 2018, Marine Ecology Progress Series.
McLay, Nagarajan‐Radha, Green, and Jones, 2018, Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A
Artificial light at night as a driver of evolutionary change across the urban-rural landscape
Hopkins, Gaston, Visser, Elgar, and Jones, 2018, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
Dimovski and Robert, 2018, Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology.
Coastal urban lighting has ecological consequences for multiple trophic levels under the sea
Bolton, Mayer-Pinto, Clark, Dafforn, Brassil, Becker, Johnston, 2017, Science of the Total Environment.
Artificial light at night desynchronizes strictly seasonal reproduction in a wild mammal
Robert, Lesku, Partecke, and Chambers 2015, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
Media and Outreach
First person: Why clownfish need darkness. On point, 2023.
Night lights cause severe loss of sleep for pigeons and magpies. New Scientist, 2020.
These fish eggs aren't hatching. The culprit? Light pollution. National Geographic, 2019.
Bright city lights are keeping ocean predators awake and hungry. The Conversation, 2016.
Other Useful Links
International Dark-Sky Association
The Global Ocean Artificial Light at Night Network
The New World Atlas of Artificial Night Sky Brightness - Interactive world light pollution map
NERAL Twitter: @NERAL_aus