{"id":1199,"date":"2025-06-25T11:39:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T18:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/richardson-lab.nau.edu\/?p=1199"},"modified":"2025-06-25T11:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T18:40:09","slug":"alan-outweighs-temperature-in-lengthening-urban-growing-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardson-lab.nau.edu\/?p=1199","title":{"rendered":"ALAN outweighs temperature in lengthening urban growing seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ever wondered how artificial light at night (ALAN) and the urban heat island (UHI) together impact plant phenology? Check out the new paper (with Andrew as a coauthor) led by Lin Meng at Vanderbilt, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s44284-025-00258-2\">&#8220;Artificial light at night outweighs temperature in lengthening urban growing seasons&#8221;<\/a>, published this week in <em>Nature Cities<\/em>! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The figure below, from Lin&#8217;s paper, shows how increasing impervious fractions results in a concave quadratic increase of air temperature (<em>T<\/em><sub>a<\/sub>) and exponential increase of ALAN from rural to urban areas. The longer exposure to ALAN and higher\u00a0<em>T<\/em><sub>a<\/sub> collectively contributes to a longer growing season, represented by the advancement of the SOS and delay of EOS in urban areas compared with rural areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"685\" height=\"569\" src=\"https:\/\/richardson-lab.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/44284_2025_258_Fig1_HTML.png.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardson-lab.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/44284_2025_258_Fig1_HTML.png.webp 685w, https:\/\/richardson-lab.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/44284_2025_258_Fig1_HTML.png-300x249.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 685px) 100vw, 685px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wondered how artificial light at night (ALAN) and the urban heat island (UHI) together impact plant phenology? Check out the new paper (with Andrew as a coauthor) led by Lin Meng at Vanderbilt, &#8220;Artificial light at night outweighs temperature in lengthening urban growing seasons&#8221;, published this week in Nature Cities! The figure below, from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/richardson-lab.nau.edu\/?p=1199\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ALAN outweighs temperature in lengthening urban growing seasons&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>ALAN outweighs temperature in lengthening urban growing seasons - The Richardson Lab<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/richardson-lab.nau.edu\/?p=1199\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ALAN outweighs temperature in lengthening urban growing seasons - The Richardson Lab\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ever wondered how artificial light at night (ALAN) and the urban heat island (UHI) together impact plant phenology? 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