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Bryant W. Buchanan,
Ph.D.
 Bryant
received his Ph.D. at the University of Louisiana. His dissertation
was entitled “The Influence of the Competitive Environment
on the Expression of Satellite Behaviour in Anuran Amphibians”.
Since 2001, Bryant has been an Assistant Professor of Biology, Department
of Biology at Utica College. Prior to that, he held other Assistant
Professor of Biology posts in other colleges/universities in the
United States.
Bryant has had
many research, teaching and interpretive publications printed. Several
grants and awards have been bestowed to him, the most recent in
2002, a research grant for “The Effect of Chronic Artificial
Night Lighting on Nocturnal Activity of Amphibians”. Bryant
is a member of the International Dark Sky Association.
The Impact of Artificial
Night Lighting on Nocturnal Amphibians
The current
expansion of human activities near and within natural habitats has
brought nocturnal animals into contact with artificial night lighting
for the first time in their evolutionary history. Most amphibians
have evolved activity patterns and sensory capabilities that allow
them to forage and interact socially under low-illumination conditions.
Thus, artificial night lighting has the potential to disrupt normal
activity and behaviour of nocturnal amphibians.We will discuss the
importance of low nocturnal illuminations to the physiology, ecology,
behaviour, and evolution of both frogs and salamanders. We will
also describe some of the demonstrated impacts of artificial night
lighting on these aspects of the biology of several nocturnal amphibians.
Finally, we will discuss the importance of studying the potentially
subtle effects of light pollution on the ecology and evolution of
nocturnal animals.
The
Impact of Artificial Night Lighting on Nocturnal Amphibians
(pdf)
Sharon Wise & Bryant Buchanan
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SPEAKERS
Bidwell,
Tony
Buchanan, Bryant
Crawford, Dr. David L.
Dick, Robert Stephen
Dickinson, Terence
French, Randy P.
Hill, Tom
Hills, Reverend Johanne
Hollan, Jenik
Hummel, Monte
Lickers, F. Henry
Lockley, Steven W.
Mesure, Michael
Moore, Chad A.
Reid,
Ron
Riley, John L.
Roberts, Dr. Joan
Rutenberg, Tony
Shaver, Dorothy
Welch, David
Whitehead, Brian
Wise, Sharon
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