Abstract
The global catastrophe of natural biodiversity and ecosystem services are expedited with the growing human population. Repercussions of artificial light at night ALAN are much wider, as it varies from unicellular to higher organism. Subsequently, hastened pollution and over exploitation of natural resources accelerate the expeditious transformation of climatic phenomenon and further cause global biodiversity losses. Moreover, it has a crucial role in global biodiversity and ecosystem services losses via influencing the ecosystem biodiversity by modulating abundance, number and aggregation at every levels as from individual to biome levels. Along with these affects, it disturbs the population, genetics and landscape structures by interfering inter- and intra-species interactions and landscape formation processes. Furthermore, alterations in normal light/dark (diurnal) signalling disrupt the stable physiological, biochemical, and molecular processes and modulate the regulating, cultural and provisioning ecosystem services and ultimately disorganize the stable ecosystem structure and functions. Moreover, ALAN reshapes the abiotic component of the ecosystem, and as a key component of global warming via producing greenhouse gases via emitting light. By taking together the above facts, this review highlights the impact of ALAN on the ecosystem and its living and non-living components, emphasizing to the terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem. Further, we summarize the means of minimizing strategies of ALAN in the environment, which are very crucial to reduce the further spread of night light contamination in the environment and can be useful to minimize the drastic impacts on the ecosystem.
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We are thankful to Dr.Sumanth Kumar Sampoorna, International Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology for guidance and ICAR-IGFRI Jhansi, India, for professional attachment Training. The corresponding author is thankful to the SKNAU- Jobner for providing the necessary facility and resources. All the authors are thankful to the anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments to improve the manuscript.
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Singhal, R.K., Chauhan, J., Jatav, H.S. et al. Artificial night light alters ecosystem services provided by biotic components. BIOLOGIA FUTURA 72, 169–185 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42977-020-00065-x
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