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 

Limited microbial community responses of marine macroalgae to artificial light at night and moderate warming conditions.

Caley, Marzinelli and Mayer Pinto, 2025, Marine Environmental Research

The effect of artificial light at night on sea turtle hatchling early dispersal: A systematic review of methods, impacts and findings.

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

Artificial light at night and warming impact grazing rates and gonad index of the sea urchin Centrostephanus rodgersii

Caley, Marzinelli, Byrne and Mayer-Pinto, 2024, Proceedings of the Royal Society B

Artificial light at night impacts night-time activity but not day-time behaviour in a diurnal coral reef fish

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

Urban shading and artificial light at night alter natural light regimes and affect marine intertidal assemblages

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.

Live fast, die young: behavioural and physiological impacts of light pollution on a marine fish during larval recruitment

O’Connor, Fobert, Besson, Jacob, and Lecchini, 2019, Marine Pollution Bulletin.

Guiding lights: foraging responses of juvenile nocturnal orb-weavers to the presence of artificial light at night

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.

Dim artificial light at night affects mating, reproductive output, and reactive oxygen species in Drosophila melanogaster

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.

Artificial light pollution: shifting spectral wavelengths to mitigate physiological and health consequences in a nocturnal marsupial mammal

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.