ECT’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.
Read MoreECT has awarded a maintenance grant to Nina Overtoom and Sylvia Toet at the University of York as a contribution to the costs of repairing and replacing essential research equipment at the 14-year-long Cors Fochno climate change experiment near Borth in mid-Wales. This award has been co-funded with our partner charity Ramble Worldwide Outdoor Trust.
Read MoreECT has awarded its latest Small Grant to Sylvia Toet at the University of York towards the costs of sustaining annual vegetation measurements at the Cors Fochno climate change experiment in mid-Wales. Costs include infrastructure maintenance, greenhouse gas measurement training and soil microbial sampling.
Read MoreECT’s quarterly newsletter for March is now published via our newsletter archive page. It includes updates and new publications from the Cors Fochno, Pound Hill and BIFoR-FACE experiments, together with a report from the recent BES conference in Liverpool and details on our efforts to engage with the soil science community in both strategic and research contexts.
Read MoreThe latest paper to emerge from the first ten years of work at the climate change manipulation experiment at Cors Fochno near Aberystwyth in mid-Wales has been published by Luke Andrews (University of York) and collaborators in Global Change Biology. The paper covers how plant communities are altering under climate change simulations in a pristine Welsh raised bog.
Read MoreECT is pleased to announce the award of its latest small grant to Luke Andrews at the University of York. Luke will be using the Cors Fochno LTE for his PhD-related work studying the effect of climate change on carbon sequestration in peatlands. If you are interested in using Cors Fochno as a research platform, read more via our Cors Fochno webpage.
Read MoreDr Richard Payne (University of York), writes about the long-term experiment he works on in Wales and the importance of bog research. Read Richard's blog here.
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