Search Results - "Spoelstra, Kamiel"
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Artificial light at night shifts daily activity patterns but not the internal clock in the great tit (Parus major)
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (28-03-2018)“…Artificial light at night has shown a dramatic increase over the last decades and continues to increase. Light at night can have strong effects on the…”
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Natural selection against a circadian clock gene mutation in mice
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (19-01-2016)“…Circadian rhythms with an endogenous period close to or equal to the natural light–dark cycle are considered evolutionarily adaptive (“circadian resonance…”
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Methods in field chronobiology
Published in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological sciences (19-11-2017)“…Chronobiological research has seen a continuous development of novel approaches and techniques to measure rhythmicity at different levels of biological…”
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Evaluating the Adaptive Fitness of Circadian Clocks and their Evolution
Published in Journal of Biological Rhythms (01-04-2024)“…Surely most chronobiologists believe circadian clocks are an adaptation of organisms that enhances fitness, but are we certain that this focus of our research…”
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A framework to assess evolutionary responses to anthropogenic light and sound
Published in Trends in ecology & evolution (Amsterdam) (01-09-2015)“…•Anthropogenic light and sound are an important component of global change.•These stimuli often co-occur and may function synergistically.•The selection…”
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Artificial light at night drives diel activity patterns of synanthropic pipistrelle bats and their prey
Published in The Science of the total environment (25-08-2024)“…The use of artificial light at night (ALAN) has increased drastically worldwide over the last decades. ALAN can have major effects on nocturnal communities,…”
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Response of bats to light with different spectra: light-shy and agile bat presence is affected by white and green, but not red light
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (31-05-2017)“…Artificial light at night has shown a remarkable increase over the past decades. Effects are reported for many species groups, and include changes in presence,…”
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11 Pressing Research Questions on How Light Pollution Affects Biodiversity
Published in Frontiers in ecology and evolution (08-12-2021)“…Artificial light at night (ALAN) is closely associated with modern societies and is rapidly increasing worldwide. A dynamically growing body of literature…”
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Pollination and fruit infestation under artificial light at night:light colour matters
Published in Scientific reports (27-10-2020)“…Rapid human population growth and associated urbanization lead to increased artificial illumination of the environment. By changing the natural light–dark…”
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Activity patterns during food provisioning are affected by artificial light in free living great tits (Parus major)
Published in PloS one (18-05-2012)“…Artificial light may have severe ecological consequences but there is limited experimental work to assess these consequences. We carried out an experimental…”
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Do Wild Great Tits Avoid Exposure to Light at Night?
Published in PloS one (29-06-2016)“…Studies of wild populations have provided important insights into the effects of artificial light at night on organisms, populations and ecosystems. However,…”
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Lab Mice in the Field: Unorthodox Daily Activity and Effects of a Dysfunctional Circadian Clock Allele
Published in Journal of biological rhythms (01-04-2011)“…Daily patterns of animal behavior are potentially of vast functional importance. Fitness benefits have been identified in nature by the association between…”
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Bats seek refuge in cluttered environment when exposed to white and red lights at night
Published in Movement ecology (22-01-2021)“…Artificial light at night is recognized as an increasing threat to biodiversity. However, information on the way highly mobile taxa such as bats spatially…”
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Combining acoustic tracking and LiDAR to study bat flight behaviour in three-dimensional space
Published in Movement ecology (26-04-2023)“…Habitat structure strongly influences niche differentiation, facilitates predator avoidance, and drives species-specific foraging strategies of bats…”
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Color of Artificial Light at Night Affects Incubation Behavior in the Great Tit, Parus major
Published in Frontiers in ecology and evolution (11-10-2021)“…Artificial light at night (ALAN) has been recognized as a biodiversity threat due to the drastic effects it can have on many organisms. In wild birds,…”
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Artificial Light at Night Reduces Daily Energy Expenditure in Breeding Great Tits (Parus major)
Published in Frontiers in ecology and evolution (30-05-2017)“…The ecological impact of artificial light at night (ALAN) is an increasingly recognized process that accompanies expanding urbanization. Yet, we have limited…”
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Sleeping outside the box: electroencephalographic measures of sleep in sloths inhabiting a rainforest
Published in Biology letters (2005) (23-08-2008)“…Bradypus variegatus…”
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Experimental illumination of a forest: no effects of lights of different colours on the onset of the dawn chorus in songbirds
Published in Royal Society open science (01-01-2017)“…Light pollution is increasing exponentially, but its impact on animal behaviour is still poorly understood. For songbirds, the most repeatable finding is that…”
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Effects of constant light on circadian rhythmicity in mice lacking functional cry genes: dissimilar from per mutants
Published in Journal of Comparative Physiology (01-03-2008)“…Mutations in each of the genes mPer1, mPer2, mCry1 and mCry2 separately cause deviations from the wild type circadian system. Differences between these mutant…”
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The Genomics of Circadian Timing in a Wild Bird, the Great Tit (Parus major)
Published in Frontiers in ecology and evolution (03-05-2019)“…Circadian rhythms are ubiquitous among taxa and are essential for coping with recurrent daily events, leading to selection on the properties of the clock…”
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