Jul 30, 2015
http://www.urbanwildlands.org/Resources/LongcoreRich2004.pdf
Do you live near in an urban or suburban setting? Want to know why light pollution impacts so many kinds of wildlife? Check out this great review by Longcore and Rich (2004).
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Our goal is to measure the effect of coastal light pollution on hatchling loggerhead ability to find the ocean. We hypothesize that there will be a threshold intensity above which hatchlings become disoriented and less efficient at "sea finding".
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