Light pollution alters food webs along riverbanks, finds study

Light pollution alters food webs along riverbanks, finds study

Artificial light at night not only alters the landscape, but also profoundly disrupts natural ecosystems. A recent study by the RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau shows that light pollution can significantly disrupt the exchange of energy and nutrients between bodies of water and their surrounding habitats—sometimes even more than non-native species. Thus, lighting along riverbanks or streams can have far-reaching ecological consequences. The…