A new paper from the 36-year-long Colt Park Meadows long-term experiment in the Yorkshire Dales has been published in Nature Communications. See also the press release on EurekAlert featuring a quote from ECT.
Read MoreJoin us! In close association with the British Ecological Society and several ecology sector partners, ECT is recruiting for two new posts under the Resilient Landscapes & Seas partnership. View the advert on our Opportunities Page for further background and to download job descriptions and person specifications. The closing date for applications for both posts is 5pm on Wednesday 28 May.
Read MoreThe UK’s annual Pint of Science festival is taking place 19-21 May with at least two of the LTEs on our register featuring in talks. See the York Events Programme for a talk on Peatland-ES-UK, and the Liverpool Events Programme for a talk on the Hordron Edge experiment.
Read MoreThe April issue of ECT’s two-monthly newsletter is now published via our newsletter archive page. It carries a strong agroecology theme and includes an update from the BIFoR-FACE elevated CO₂ experiment in Staffordshire, now entering its ninth year of operations.
Read MoreA further new webpage is also now available on our website for the long-term agroecology rotational trials experiment at SRUC Tulloch in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This important experiment at the interface between agriculture and ecology has now been running for 34 years and is currently under the guidance of Christine Watson at Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC).
Read MoreA brand-new webpage for the long-term agroforestry experiment at AFBI Loughgall in Northern Ireland is now available on our website. Follow the link above for our ‘new look’ to our LTE site pages, containing a mine of information for multiple audiences. The Loughgall experiment has now been running for 36 years and is currently under the guidance of Rodrigo Olave at AFBI Northern Ireland.
Read MoreAccess a recording of our most recent webinar (21 March) with botanist and ecologist Cicely Marshall from the University of Cambridge. Cicely speaks about her work funded under ECT’s small grants scheme to test out Defra’s biodiversity metric using a number of LTEs and other long-term datasets. Subscribe to our YouTube channel channel to receive direct notifications of new webinar recordings when they are uploaded.
Read MoreThe spring edition of the BES quarterly magazine The Niche features our article on the Buxton Climate Change Impacts Laboratory (BCCIL). It is guest-authored by the BCCIL team and highlights how the experiment serves as a research platform for all to come and use (by arrangement).
Read MoreECT’s latest podcast is now published on SoundCloud featuring Andy Hector (University of Oxford) and Clare Lawson (Open University) interviewed at the RainDrop drought/enhanced rainfall experiment at Wytham Woods, now in its ninth year.
Read MoreECT’s first two-monthly newsletter of the year is now published via our newsletter archive page. It includes news on several recent activities associated with the RainDrop long-term drought/enhanced rainfall experiment at Wytham, together with our first small grant award of 2025, updates on the Thursley Common and Cors Fochno LTEs and links to some of the latest journal publications from more LTEs on our national register.
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