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Design and implementation of an illumination system to mimic skyglow at ecosystem level in a large‐scale lake enclosure facility

Abstract

Light pollution is an environmental stressor of global extent that is growing exponentially in area and intensity. Artificial skyglow, a form of light pollution with large range, is hypothesized to have environmental impact at ecosystem level. However, testing the impact of skyglow at large scales and in a controlled fashion under in situ conditions has remained elusive so far. Here we present the first experimental setup to mimic skyglow at ecosystem level outdoors in an aquatic environment. Spatially diffuse and homogeneous surface illumination that is adjustable between 0.01 and 10 lx, resembling rural to urban skyglow levels, was achieved with white light‐emitting diodes at a large‐ scale lake enclosure facility. The illumination system was enabled by optical modeling with Monte‐ Carlo raytracing and validated by measurements. Our method can be adapted to other outdoor and indoor skyglow experiments, urgently needed to understand the impact of skyglow on ecosystems.

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Category:
Articles
Type:
artykuły w czasopismach
Published in:
Scientific Reports no. 11,
ISSN: 2045-2322
Language:
English
Publication year:
2021
Bibliographic description:
Jechow A., Schreck G., Kyba C. C. M., Berger S. A., Thuile Bistarelli L., Bodenlos M., Gessner M. O., Grossart H., Kupprat F., Nejstgaard J. C., Pansch A., Penske A., Sachtleben M., Shatwell T., Singer G. A., Stephan S., Walles T. J. W., Wollrab S., Zielińska-Dąbkowska K., Hölker F.: Design and implementation of an illumination system to mimic skyglow at ecosystem level in a large‐scale lake enclosure facility// Scientific Reports -Vol. 11,iss. 1 (2021), s.23478-
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Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1038/s41598-021-02772-4
Sources of funding:
  • Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. This work was part of the Illuminating Lake Ecosystems (ILES) project funded by the Leibniz Association (SAW-2015-IGB-1). Further support was received through the projects Bridging in Biodiversity Science (BIBS) funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF, grant no. 01LC1501G), a core facility grant provided by the German Research Foundation (DFG, GE 1775/2–1), and a grant by the BMBF for building the enclosure facility (033L041B). AJ was partly supported by IGB’s Frontiers in Freshwater Science program.
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Gdańsk University of Technology

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