List of works - Franz Hölker

11 Pressing Research Questions on How Light Pollution Affects Biodiversity

scientific article published in 2021

A Systematic Review for Establishing Relevant Environmental Parameters for Urban Lighting: Translating Research into Practice

scientific article published on 19 January 2022

A framework for untangling the consequences of artificial light at night on species interactions

scientific article published on 30 October 2023

A global agenda for advancing freshwater biodiversity research

scientific article published in 2021

A pigment composition analysis reveals community changes in pre-established stream periphyton under low-level artificial light at night

article

A plea for a worldwide development of dark infrastructure for biodiversity – Practical examples and ways to go forward

scientific article published in March 2022

A spatiotemporal individual-based fish model to investigate emergent properties at the organismal and the population level

article

A transition to white LED increases ecological impacts of nocturnal illumination on aquatic primary producers in a lowland agricultural drainage ditch

scientific article published on 14 May 2018

Adaptive behaviour of chironomid larvae (Chironomus riparius) in response to chemical stimuli from predators and resource density

scientific article published in 2005

Aerial survey and spatial analysis of sources of light pollution in Berlin, Germany

article

Altered sex‐specific mortality and female mating success: ecological effects and evolutionary responses

scientific article published in 2017

An unintended experiment in fisheries science: a marine area protected by war results in Mexican waves in fish numbers-at-age

scientific article published on 13 July 2010

Artificial Light at Night Affects Organism Flux across Ecosystem Boundaries and Drives Community Structure in the Recipient Ecosystem

article by Alessandro Manfrin et al published 20 October 2017 in Frontiers in environmental science

Artificial light and nocturnal activity in gammarids

scientific article published on 06 March 2014

Artificial light as a disturbance to light-naïve streams

article

Artificial light at night decreases biomass and alters community composition of benthic primary producers in a sub-alpine stream

article

Artificial light at night: implications for early life stages development in four temperate freshwater fish species

article

Artificially lit surface of Earth at night increasing in radiance and extent.

scientific article published on 22 November 2017

Assessing how uncertainty and stochasticity affect the dispersal of fish in river networks

article published in 2017

Assessing long‐term effects of artificial light at night on insects: what is missing and how to get there

scientific article

Author Correction: Monitoring, trends and impacts of light pollution

scientific article published on 3 July 2024

Beyond All-Sky: Assessing Ecological Light Pollution Using Multi-Spectral Full-Sphere Fisheye Lens Imaging

scientific article published on 09 April 2019

Can data from native mosquitoes support determining invasive species habitats? Modelling the climatic niche of Aedes japonicus japonicus (Diptera, Culicidae) in Germany ⬇️

scientific article published on 26 November 2019

Can skyglow reduce nocturnal melatonin concentrations in Eurasian perch?

scientific article published on 05 March 2020

Citizen science provides valuable data for monitoring global night sky luminance

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Citizen science’s transformative impact on science, citizen empowerment and socio-political processes

scientific article published on 12 January 2023

Cloud coverage acts as an amplifier for ecological light pollution in urban ecosystems

scientific article

Comment on "Impacts of biodiversity loss on ocean ecosystem services"

scientific article published in June 2007

Correction: Pérez Vega et al. A Systematic Review for Establishing Relevant Environmental Parameters for Urban Lighting: Translating Research into Practice. Sustainability 2022, 14, 1107

scientific article published on 23 September 2022

Corrigendum: Worldwide variations in artificial skyglow

scientific article published on 5 August 2015

Design and implementation of an illumination system to mimic skyglow at ecosystem level in a large-scale lake enclosure facility

scientific article published in 2021

Dietary changes in predators and scavengers in a nocturnally illuminated riparian ecosystem

scientific article published in 2018

Dietary niche partitioning in a piscivorous fish guild in response to stocking of an additional competitor – The role of diet specialisation

article

Do artificially illuminated skies affect biodiversity in nocturnal landscapes?

article by Christopher C. M. Kyba & Franz Hölker published 15 September 2013 in Landscape Ecology

Ecological commonalities among pelagic fishes: comparison of freshwater ciscoes and marine herring and sprat

scientific article published in 2012

Effects of piscivore-mediated habitat use on growth, diet and zooplankton consumption of roach: an individual-based modelling approach

article published in 2002

Effects of temperature, swimming speed and body mass on standard and active metabolic rate in vendace (Coregonus albula).

scientific article published on 20 July 2007

Emergent properties in individual-based ecological models—introducing case studies in an ecosystem research context

scientific article published in 2005

Erratum: The Impact Of Light Pollution On Bats Varies According To Foraging Guild And Habitat Context

scholarly article published in BioScience

Estimating the active metabolic rate (AMR) in fish based on tail beat frequency (TBF) and body mass

scientific article published on May 2007

European Wilderness in a Time of Farmland Abandonment

article published in 2015

Eutrophication, Research and Management History of the Shallow Ypacaraí Lake (Paraguay)

article

Evaluating Multiple Stressor Effects on Benthic–Pelagic Freshwater Communities in Systems of Different Complexities: Challenges in Upscaling

scientific article published in 2022

Evaluating the summer night sky brightness at a research field site on Lake Stechlin in northeastern Germany ⬇️

article

Evidence That Reduced Air and Road Traffic Decreased Artificial Night-Time Skyglow during COVID-19 Lockdown in Berlin, Germany

scientific article published on 17 October 2020

Exploring ultimate hypotheses to predict diel vertical migrations in coregonid fish

scientific article

Exposure pathways matter: Aquatic phototrophic communities respond differently to agricultural run‐off exposed via sediment or water

scientific article published in 2023

Facing the infinity: tackling large samples of challenging Chironomidae (Diptera) with an integrative approach

scientific article published on 22 May 2023

High female survival promotes evolution of protogyny and sexual conflict

scientific article

High-Resolution Imagery of Earth at Night: New Sources, Opportunities and Challenges

article by Christopher Kyba et al published 23 December 2014 in Remote Sensing

Hitting the sweet spot of complexity: Reasons why the development of new custom-tailored models is still warranted and should be encouraged in aquatic sciences

scientific article published in 2021

How dark is a river? Artificial light at night in aquatic systems and the need for comprehensive night‐time light measurements

scientific article published in 2019

Hypotheses in urban ecology: building a common knowledge base

Imaging and mapping the impact of clouds on skyglow with all-sky photometry

scientific article

Impact of Chaoborus flavicans -Predation on the Zooplankton in a Mesotrophic Lake - a Three Year Study

article

Impact of Different Wavelengths of Artificial Light at Night on Phototaxis in Aquatic Insects

scientific article published in 2021

Impact of Lighting on Flora and Fauna

Impact of different colours of artificial light at night on melatonin rhythm and gene expression of gonadotropins in European perch

scientific article published on 13 November 2015

Impact of light pollution on moth morphology–A 137-year study in Germany

scientific article published on 31 May 2021

Improved river continuity facilitates fishes' abilities to track future environmental changes

scientific article

Influence of artificially induced light pollution on the hormone system of two common fish species, perch and roach, in a rural habitat

scientific article published on 13 April 2018

Influence of light intensity and spectral composition of artificial light at night on melatonin rhythm and mRNA expression of gonadotropins in roach Rutilus rutilus

scientific article

Innate immunity, oxidative stress and body indices of Eurasian perch Perca fluviatilis after two weeks of exposure to artificial light at night

scientific article published in 2021

Innovation in Citizen Science – Perspectives on Science-Policy Advances

article

Intraspecific temperature dependence of the scaling of metabolic rate with body mass in fishes and its ecological implications

article by Jan Ohlberger et al published 11 August 2011 in Oikos

Is ecological segregation in a pair of sympatric coregonines supported by divergent feeding efficiencies?

article published in 2008

Large-scale sampling of the freshwater microbiome suggests pollution-driven ecosystem changes

scientific article published in 2022

Life in turbulent flows: interactions between hydrodynamics and aquatic organisms in rivers

Light Pollution Reduction

scholarly article published 2014

Light Pollution, Circadian Photoreception, and Melatonin in Vertebrates

scientific article published on 14 November 2019

Light intensity and spectral distribution affect chytrid infection of cyanobacteria via modulation of host fitness

scientific article published on 09 June 2020

Light pollution as a biodiversity threat

article

Light pollution from illuminated bridges as a potential barrier for migrating fish–Linking measurements with a proposal for a conceptual model

scientific article published in February 2024

Light pollution of freshwater ecosystems: principles, ecological impacts and remedies

scientific article published on 30 October 2023

Long-Term Comparison of Attraction of Flying Insects to Streetlights after the Transition from Traditional Light Sources to Light-Emitting Diodes in Urban and Peri-Urban Settings

scientific article published in 2019

Lunar skylight polarization signal polluted by urban lighting

scholarly article

Measuring Light Pollution with Fisheye Lens Imagery from A Moving Boat – A Proof of Concept

scientific article published on 22 December 2017

Microbial diversity and community respiration in freshwater sediments influenced by artificial light at night

scientific article

Microcosm experiment combined with process-based modeling reveals differential response and adaptation of aquatic primary producers to warming and agricultural run-off

scientific article published in 2023

Microplastic inclusion in birch tree roots

scientific article published in February 2022

Misbalance of thyroid hormones after two weeks of exposure to artificial light at night in Eurasian perch Perca fluviatilis

scientific article published in 2021

Modelling energetic costs of fish swimming

scientific article

Monitoring, trends and impacts of light pollution

scientific article published on 23 May 2024

Multiple-stressor exposure of aquatic food webs: Nitrate and warming modulate the effect of pesticides

scientific article published in 2022

Navigating the drought: upstream migration of a small-sized Cypriniformes (Telestes muticellus) in response to drying in a partially intermittent mountain stream

scientific article published in January 2024

Night Matters—Why the Interdisciplinary Field of “Night Studies” Is Needed

Out of the Dark: Establishing a Large-Scale Field Experiment to Assess the Effects of Artificial Light at Night on Species and Food Webs

article by Stephanie Holzhauer et al published 20 November 2015 in Sustainability

Parasite community and mortality of overwintering young-of-the-year roach (Rutilus rutilus).

scientific article published in October 2007

Polarised light pollution on river water surfaces caused by artificial light at night from illuminated bridges and surroundings

scientific article published on 22 May 2024

Population Density of the Crayfish,Orconectes limosus, in Relation to Fish and Macroinvertebrate Densities in a Small Mesotrophic Lake - Implications for the Lake's Food Web

article

Red is the new black: how the colour of urban skyglow varies with cloud cover

article by C. C. M. Kyba et al published 2 August 2012 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Redefining efficiency for outdoor lighting

Reducing the fatal attraction of nocturnal insects using tailored and shielded road lights

scientific article published on 31 May 2024

Resources of dark skies in German climatic health resorts.

scientific article

Response of the residential piscivorous fish community to introduction of a new predator type in a mesotrophic lake

article

Revisiting global trends in freshwater insect biodiversity

scientific article

SMART Research: Toward Interdisciplinary River Science in Europe

scientific article published in 2020

Simulation of trait- and density-mediated indirect effects induced by piscivorous predators

scientific article published in 2005

Slugs (Arionidae) benefit from nocturnal artificial illumination

scientific article published on 14 May 2018

Spatial and seasonal patterns of water isotopes in northeastern German lakes

scientific article published in 2022

Spatial and seasonal patterns of water isotopes in northeastern German lakes

Spatial and temporal heterogeneity of trophic variables in a deep lake as reflected by repeated singular samplings

article

Spatial-temporal expansion and determinants of light pollution in India's riparian habitats

scientific article published in 2023

Spotlight on fish: light pollution affects circadian rhythms of European perch but does not cause stress

scientific article published on 8 January 2015

Street lighting: sex-independent impacts on moth movement

scientific article

Survival and swimming performance of a small-sized Cypriniformes (Telestes muticellus) tagged with passive integrated transponders

scientific article published on 21 March 2023

Swimming efficiency and the influence of morphology on swimming costs in fishes.

scientific article published on 22 September 2005

Synergistic and antagonistic interactions of future land use and climate change on river fish assemblages.

scientific article published on 9 December 2015

Temperature stability of the sky quality meter.

scientific article published on 11 September 2013

The Dark Side of Light: A Transdisciplinary Research Agenda for Light Pollution Policy

scientific article published on 08 February 2017

The Impact Of Light Pollution On Bats Varies According To Foraging Guild And Habitat Context

scientific article published on 03 August 2021

The Use of Sentinel-2 for Chlorophyll-a Spatial Dynamics Assessment: A Comparative Study on Different Lakes in Northern Germany

scientific article published in 2021

The biological impacts of artificial light at night: the research challenge

scientific article (publication date: 16 March 2015)

The concepts of emergent and collective properties in individual-based models—Summary and outlook of the Bornhöved case studies

scientific article published in 2005

The effects of artificial lighting on adult aquatic and terrestrial insects

scholarly article by Elizabeth K. Perkin et al published 21 November 2013 in Freshwater Biology

The future distribution of river fish: The complex interplay of climate and land use changes, species dispersal and movement barriers

scientific article

The influence of artificial light on stream and riparian ecosystems: questions, challenges, and perspectives

article

The potential of citizen science to transform science: Lessons for a sustainable future

scientific article published on 25 February 2024

The rising moon promotes mate finding in moths

scientific article published on 28 April 2022

The role of winter phenology in shaping the ecology of freshwater fish and their sensitivities to climate change

article

The underestimated dynamics and impacts of water-based recreational activities on freshwater ecosystems

Towards Insect-Friendly Road Lighting—A Transdisciplinary Multi-Stakeholder Approach Involving Citizen Scientists

Tracking the dynamics of skyglow with differential photometry using a digital camera with fisheye lens

scientific article published in 2018

Trait-mediated indirect effects of predatory fish on microbial mineralization in aquatic sediments

scientific article published in December 2006

Tube‐dwelling invertebrates: tiny ecosystem engineers have large effects in lake ecosystems

scientific article published in August 2015

Turbulence, instream wood and fish: Ecohydraulic interactions under field conditions

Two camera system for measurement of urban uplight angular distribution

Using all-sky differential photometry to investigate how nocturnal clouds darken the night sky in rural areas

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Welcome to the Dark Side: Partial Nighttime Illumination Affects Night-and Daytime Foraging Behavior of a Small Mammal

scientific article published in 2022

What makes the Asian bush mosquito Aedes japonicus japonicus feel comfortable in Germany? A fuzzy modelling approach

article

White Paper Citizen Science Strategy 2030 for Germany

Window Illumination Should be Expected to Poorly Correlate With Satellite Brightness Measurements ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 February 2012

Working with Inadequate Tools: Legislative Shortcomings in Protection against Ecological Effects of Artificial Light at Night

scientific article published in 2020

Worldwide variations in artificial skyglow

scientific article (publication date: 12 February 2015)

List of works by Franz Hölker

11 Pressing Research Questions on How Light Pollution Affects Biodiversity

A Systematic Review for Establishing Relevant Environmental Parameters for Urban Lighting: Translating Research into Practice

A framework for untangling the consequences of artificial light at night on species interactions

A global agenda for advancing freshwater biodiversity research

A pigment composition analysis reveals community changes in pre-established stream periphyton under low-level artificial light at night

A plea for a worldwide development of dark infrastructure for biodiversity – Practical examples and ways to go forward

A spatiotemporal individual-based fish model to investigate emergent properties at the organismal and the population level

A transition to white LED increases ecological impacts of nocturnal illumination on aquatic primary producers in a lowland agricultural drainage ditch

Adaptive behaviour of chironomid larvae (Chironomus riparius) in response to chemical stimuli from predators and resource density

Aerial survey and spatial analysis of sources of light pollution in Berlin, Germany

Altered sex‐specific mortality and female mating success: ecological effects and evolutionary responses

An unintended experiment in fisheries science: a marine area protected by war results in Mexican waves in fish numbers-at-age

Artificial Light at Night Affects Organism Flux across Ecosystem Boundaries and Drives Community Structure in the Recipient Ecosystem

Artificial light and nocturnal activity in gammarids

Artificial light as a disturbance to light-naïve streams

Artificial light at night decreases biomass and alters community composition of benthic primary producers in a sub-alpine stream

Artificial light at night: implications for early life stages development in four temperate freshwater fish species

Artificially lit surface of Earth at night increasing in radiance and extent.

Assessing how uncertainty and stochasticity affect the dispersal of fish in river networks

Assessing long‐term effects of artificial light at night on insects: what is missing and how to get there

Author Correction: Monitoring, trends and impacts of light pollution

Beyond All-Sky: Assessing Ecological Light Pollution Using Multi-Spectral Full-Sphere Fisheye Lens Imaging

Can data from native mosquitoes support determining invasive species habitats? Modelling the climatic niche of Aedes japonicus japonicus (Diptera, Culicidae) in Germany ⬇️

Can skyglow reduce nocturnal melatonin concentrations in Eurasian perch?

Citizen science provides valuable data for monitoring global night sky luminance

Citizen science’s transformative impact on science, citizen empowerment and socio-political processes

Cloud coverage acts as an amplifier for ecological light pollution in urban ecosystems

Comment on "Impacts of biodiversity loss on ocean ecosystem services"

Correction: Pérez Vega et al. A Systematic Review for Establishing Relevant Environmental Parameters for Urban Lighting: Translating Research into Practice. Sustainability 2022, 14, 1107

Corrigendum: Worldwide variations in artificial skyglow

Design and implementation of an illumination system to mimic skyglow at ecosystem level in a large-scale lake enclosure facility

Dietary changes in predators and scavengers in a nocturnally illuminated riparian ecosystem

Dietary niche partitioning in a piscivorous fish guild in response to stocking of an additional competitor – The role of diet specialisation

Do artificially illuminated skies affect biodiversity in nocturnal landscapes?

Ecological commonalities among pelagic fishes: comparison of freshwater ciscoes and marine herring and sprat

Effects of piscivore-mediated habitat use on growth, diet and zooplankton consumption of roach: an individual-based modelling approach

Effects of temperature, swimming speed and body mass on standard and active metabolic rate in vendace (Coregonus albula).

Emergent properties in individual-based ecological models—introducing case studies in an ecosystem research context

Erratum: The Impact Of Light Pollution On Bats Varies According To Foraging Guild And Habitat Context

Estimating the active metabolic rate (AMR) in fish based on tail beat frequency (TBF) and body mass

European Wilderness in a Time of Farmland Abandonment

Eutrophication, Research and Management History of the Shallow Ypacaraí Lake (Paraguay)

Evaluating Multiple Stressor Effects on Benthic–Pelagic Freshwater Communities in Systems of Different Complexities: Challenges in Upscaling

Evaluating the summer night sky brightness at a research field site on Lake Stechlin in northeastern Germany ⬇️

Evidence That Reduced Air and Road Traffic Decreased Artificial Night-Time Skyglow during COVID-19 Lockdown in Berlin, Germany

Exploring ultimate hypotheses to predict diel vertical migrations in coregonid fish

Exposure pathways matter: Aquatic phototrophic communities respond differently to agricultural run‐off exposed via sediment or water

Facing the infinity: tackling large samples of challenging Chironomidae (Diptera) with an integrative approach

High female survival promotes evolution of protogyny and sexual conflict

High-Resolution Imagery of Earth at Night: New Sources, Opportunities and Challenges

Hitting the sweet spot of complexity: Reasons why the development of new custom-tailored models is still warranted and should be encouraged in aquatic sciences

How dark is a river? Artificial light at night in aquatic systems and the need for comprehensive night‐time light measurements

Hypotheses in urban ecology: building a common knowledge base

Imaging and mapping the impact of clouds on skyglow with all-sky photometry

Impact of Chaoborus flavicans -Predation on the Zooplankton in a Mesotrophic Lake - a Three Year Study

Impact of Different Wavelengths of Artificial Light at Night on Phototaxis in Aquatic Insects

Impact of Lighting on Flora and Fauna

Impact of different colours of artificial light at night on melatonin rhythm and gene expression of gonadotropins in European perch

Impact of light pollution on moth morphology–A 137-year study in Germany

Improved river continuity facilitates fishes' abilities to track future environmental changes

Influence of artificially induced light pollution on the hormone system of two common fish species, perch and roach, in a rural habitat

Influence of light intensity and spectral composition of artificial light at night on melatonin rhythm and mRNA expression of gonadotropins in roach Rutilus rutilus

Innate immunity, oxidative stress and body indices of Eurasian perch <i>Perca fluviatilis</i> after two weeks of exposure to artificial light at night

Innovation in Citizen Science – Perspectives on Science-Policy Advances

Intraspecific temperature dependence of the scaling of metabolic rate with body mass in fishes and its ecological implications

Is ecological segregation in a pair of sympatric coregonines supported by divergent feeding efficiencies?

Large-scale sampling of the freshwater microbiome suggests pollution-driven ecosystem changes

Life in turbulent flows: interactions between hydrodynamics and aquatic organisms in rivers

Light Pollution Reduction

Light Pollution, Circadian Photoreception, and Melatonin in Vertebrates

Light intensity and spectral distribution affect chytrid infection of cyanobacteria via modulation of host fitness

Light pollution as a biodiversity threat

Light pollution from illuminated bridges as a potential barrier for migrating fish–Linking measurements with a proposal for a conceptual model

Light pollution of freshwater ecosystems: principles, ecological impacts and remedies

Long-Term Comparison of Attraction of Flying Insects to Streetlights after the Transition from Traditional Light Sources to Light-Emitting Diodes in Urban and Peri-Urban Settings

Lunar skylight polarization signal polluted by urban lighting

Measuring Light Pollution with Fisheye Lens Imagery from A Moving Boat – A Proof of Concept

Microbial diversity and community respiration in freshwater sediments influenced by artificial light at night

Microcosm experiment combined with process-based modeling reveals differential response and adaptation of aquatic primary producers to warming and agricultural run-off

Survival and swimming performance of a small-sized Cypriniformes (<em>Telestes muticellus</em>) tagged with passive integrated transponders