Artificial light at night (ALAN) is nowadays recognized as a major anthropogenic pressure on the environment on a global scale and as such is called light pollution. Through its attractive or deterrent effects, and its disruption of the biological clock for many animal and plant taxa, ALAN is increasingly recognized as a major threat to global biodiversity, which ultimately alters the amount, the quality, and the connectivity of available habitats for taxa. Biodiversity conservation tools should, therefore, include ALAN spatial and temporal effects. The ecological network, i.e., the physical and functional combination of natural elements that promote habitat connectivity, provides a valuable framework for that purpose. Understood as a social-ecological framework, it offers the opportunity to take into account the multiple uses of nocturnal spaces and times, by humans and nonhumans alike. Here we present the concept of “dark ecological network.” We show this concept is able to grasp the effects of ALAN in terms of habitat disturbances and integrates temporal dimensions of ecological processes into biodiversity conservation planning. Moreover, it is also intended to trivialize the practices of darkness protection by turning them into the ordinary practices of land use planning. From an operational point of view, the challenge is to translate the levers for reducing ALAN-induced effects into a political method for its “territorialization.” To achieve this objective, we propose a course of action that consists of building an interdisciplinary repertoire of contextualized knowledge (e.g., impacts on wildlife, human/lightscape relationship, existing legal tools, etc.), in order to deduce from it a number of practical supports for the governance of the dark ecological network in response to societal and ecological issues.

中文翻译：

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抓住黑暗：黑暗的生态网络作为一种社会生态框架来限制光污染对生物多样性的影响

如今，夜间人造光（ALAN）在全球范围内被认为是对环境的主要人为压力，因此被称为光污染。通过其诱人或威慑作用，以及对许多动植物分类群的生物钟的破坏，ALAN被日益视为对全球生物多样性的主要威胁，最终改变了分类群的数量，质量和可用生境的连通性。因此，生物多样性保护工具应包括ALAN的时空效应。生态网络，即促进栖息地连通性的自然元素的物理和功能组合，为该目的提供了宝贵的框架。被理解为社会生态框架，它提供了一个机会，可以考虑人类和非人类对夜间空间和时间的多次使用。在这里，我们提出“黑暗生态网络”的概念。我们证明了这一概念能够抓住ALAN对栖息地干扰的影响，并将生态过程的时间维度整合到生物多样性保护规划中。此外，它还旨在通过将其转变为土地利用规划的常规做法，来简化黑暗保护的做法。从操作的角度来看，挑战在于将减少ALAN引起的影响的手段转化为“地区化”的政治方法。为了实现这一目标，我们提出了一个行动方案，其中包括建立一个跨学科的语境化知识库（例如，对野生动植物的影响，