Artificial light during the polar night disrupts Arctic fish and zooplankton behaviour down to 200 m depth.

Communications Biology
Jørgen BergeStephane Gauthier

Abstract

For organisms that remain active in one of the last undisturbed and pristine dark environments on the planet-the Arctic Polar Night-the moon, stars and aurora borealis may provide important cues to guide distribution and behaviours, including predator-prey interactions. With a changing climate and increased human activities in the Arctic, such natural light sources will in many places be masked by the much stronger illumination from artificial light. Here we show that normal working-light from a ship may disrupt fish and zooplankton behaviour down to at least 200 m depth across an area of >0.125 km2 around the ship. Both the quantitative and qualitative nature of the disturbance differed between the examined regions. We conclude that biological surveys in the dark from illuminated ships may introduce biases on biological sampling, bioacoustic surveys, and possibly stock assessments of commercial and non-commercial species.

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Jul 29, 2020·Scientific Reports·Thomas W DaviesTim Smyth
Aug 14, 2020·Journal of Environmental Management·Mykyta PeregrymFabio Falchi
Jun 24, 2021·Proceedings. Biological Sciences·Christina DiamantopoulouSofie Spatharis
Jul 24, 2021·Scientific Reports·Maxime GeoffroyJørgen Berge
Aug 6, 2021·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America·Melissa M OmandKaren Stamieszkin
Jun 26, 2021·Integrative and Comparative Biology·Kevin J GastonDirk Sanders

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