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  • This dataset contains measurements of four physiological parameters measured in blood samples collected from zebra finches held in indoor cages over a period of 4 months. We measured four parameters: glucose concentration, non-enzymatic anti-oxidant capacity, lipid peroxidation and relative telomere length. Zebra finches were held in groups separated into three different treatments: a control group where birds were held under natural light-dark cycles, a group where birds were exposed to dim artificial light at night during the entire night (FLAN) and a group where birds where partially exposed to artificial light at night, between dusk and midnight (PLAN). Samples were taken at the start, mid-term, and end of the experiment. Full details about this nonGeographicDataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/55f10059-82c0-4216-a004-e6d690d628e1

  • This dataset contains information about moth caterpillar abundance at sites lit by streetlights (LED; high pressure sodium and low-pressure sodium) and unlit control sites. Caterpillars were sampled at 26 matched pairs of lit and unlit sites between 2018 and 2020 as part of a study of the effects of street lighting on the early life stages of moths. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/4d3f4c8a-5605-4990-8ca1-42f8ddf63698

  • This dataset contains information about moth caterpillar masses at sites lit by streetlights (LED; high pressure sodium and low-pressure sodium) and unlit control sites. Caterpillars were sampled at 26 matched pairs of lit and unlit sites between 2018 and 2020 as part of a study of the effects of street lighting on the early life stages of moths. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/7d3aa79b-43bb-493f-a14a-0d4c07f9a0d9

  • Counts of caterpillars arising from a short-term experiment that installed lighting rigs in previously unlit areas to test for a change in nocturnal feeding behaviour. Caterpillars were counted from lit and control transects at two locations in Oxfordshire during January and February 2019. Lighting rigs were installed during the afternoon and switched on one hour before sunset. To give the nocturnal caterpillars time to become active, sampling occurred between 60 and 120 minutes after sunset. On a sampling night, all transects were sampled within a 5–10-minute period. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/7e7ce7c1-aa16-484f-86b1-90c5b088a64c

  • The datasets contain insect numbers, plant biomass, successful attacks of parasitoids, and behavioural response of parasitoids. The data are based on direct observations of insects and plants in field and laboratory experiments testing for the impact of different spectra of artificial light at night on an experimental insect food web with coloured near-monochromatic LEDs, with a single peak emittance across the visible and near-UV spectrum at wavelengths of 385, 447, 469, 475, 518, 607 and 630 nm plus a dark control. The dark control was exposed to the natural background light levels at night. We kept photon flux similar to the output of a white light LED at 20 lux, for all light treatments apart from the UV treatment. Data collection was done in a field site, and controlled temperature room at Penryn Campus of University of Exeter, Penryn, UK. The field experiment was set up on 3rd June 2017 and ran for 17 weeks, while the additional experiments were conducted between summer 2017 and summer 2018. The data have been sampled as part of the NERC project NE/N001672/1 “Effects of artificial light on multi-trophic population dynamics”. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/dfe9a1ed-fc98-4abd-8040-6ee9f01cfcd0