Age of enlightenment: long-term effects of outdoor aesthetic lights on bats in churches

We surveyed 110 country churches in south-western Sweden for presence of brown long-eared bats Plecotus auritus in summer 2016 by visual inspection and/or evening emergence counts. Each church was also classified according to the presence and amount of aesthetic directional lights (flood-lights) aim...

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Main Authors: Jens Rydell, Johan Eklöf, Sonia Sánchez-Navarro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Royal Society 2017-01-01
Series:Royal Society Open Science
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Online Access:https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.161077