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 MoreA new paper from the 23-year-long Glen Finglas upland grazing experiment in northwest Scotland has just been published in the Journal of Avian Biology titled: ‘Assessing the impacts of livestock grazing on upland bird breeding territories using drone surveys’.
Read MoreA new paper from the 169-year-long Park Grass experiment has just been published in the journal npj Biodiversity titled: ‘Trade-off between pollinator-wildflower diversity & grassland yields’. The Guardian picked up on this publication with their article High fertiliser use halves numbers of pollinators, world’s longest study finds.
Read MoreA new paper arising from the first 6 years of research at the RainDrop experiment has been published in the Journal of Ecology titled ‘Differential responses of community-level functional traits to mid- and late-season experimental drought in a temperate grassland’.
Read MoreA further new paper has recently been published from the BIFoR-FACE long-term CO₂ elevation experiment in oak woodland in Staffordshire. Authored by Rob MacKenzie and colleagues (University of Birmingham), the paper in the Journal of Forestry Research describes how elevated CO₂ is affecting acorn production. See also our website bibliography for this LTE.
Read MoreA new paper has been published in the journal Food & Energy Security from the BIFoR-FACE long-term CO₂ elevation experiment in oak woodland in Staffordshire. Authored by Rob MacKenzie and colleagues (University of Birmingham), the paper describes how the BIFoR-FACE LTE is contributing to better policymaking around tree planting and woodland management. See also our website bibliography for this LTE.
Read MoreA new paper has just been published in the journal Global Change Biology from the Wardlow Hay Cop long-term grassland experiment in Derbyshire. Authored by Chris Taylor, Gareth Phoenix and others (University of Sheffield), the publication describes how nutrient inputs interact with rising CO₂ to change the plant community in phosphorus-limited grasslands. See also our website bibliography for this LTE.
Read MoreA new paper has just been published in the Journal of Environmental Management from the Bamford Edge long-term bracken control/grassland recovery experiment in Derbyshire. Authored by PI Rob Marrs (University of Liverpool) and colleagues, the paper describes how upland acid grasslands can recover following different bracken controls. See also our website bibliography for this LTE.
Read MoreTwo new reports and a further online publication have emerged from the Peatland-ES-UK long-term moorland management experiment located on three sites across North Yorkshire and East Lancashire. Authored by PI Andreas Heinemeyer (University of York), the reports describe in detail the first decade of results from the experiment. See our website bibliography for this LTE.
Read MoreA new paper has emerged from the Moor House grazing exclosures experiment in the northern Pennines. Authored by Rob Marrs (University of Liverpool) and collaborators in Ecological Indicators, the paper covers vegetation change in four British upland communities in Upper Teesdale over the period 1953 to 2016.
Read MoreECT Company Number: 6652160, Charity Number: 1126122
This page last updated 12/6/25
Provides core funding to ect
