http://www.nightsymposium.org/lack-of-control-over-lighting-leads-to-light-pollution Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:11:53 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.nightsymposium.org/lack-of-control-over-lighting-leads-to-light-pollution/comment-page-1#comment-4 vector AB Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:54:07 +0000 http://nightsymposium.org/lack-of-control-over-lighting-leads-to-light-pollution#comment-4 Yes, there are many locations where you could find smiler ecosystems one near a source of light pollution and the other far away from it, you could take such a situation and compare the biodiversity, rate of plant growth and animal reproduction in the two locations, as well as many other factors, however there is always the fact that the two locations can not be the same in every aspect (elevation, precipitation, CO2 levels, etc.) so the most accurate way would be to take a set area say 2 acres and divide them up so that one side is subject to light pollution and the other is not, and to see how the sides change from the original survey Yes, there are many locations where you could find smiler ecosystems one near a source of light pollution and the other far away from it, you could take such a situation and compare the biodiversity, rate of plant growth and animal reproduction in the two locations, as well as many other factors, however there is always the fact that the two locations can not be the same in every aspect (elevation, precipitation, CO2 levels, etc.) so the most accurate way would be to take a set area say 2 acres and divide them up so that one side is subject to light pollution and the other is not, and to see how the sides change from the original survey

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