New blog post
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ECT Ten Years On, by Jonathan Silvertown. Read Jonathan’s review of where ECT came from and what we have achieved in our first ten years.
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Call for New ECT Trustees
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ECT is recruiting new trustees to supplement its existing Board of eight voluntary members. View our recruitment advert and person specification. Full application packs are available on request from ECT’s Executive Director. The closing date for applications is 5pm on Friday 29 March 2019.
Read MoreECT’s ‘Main Event’ for 2019
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Registration is now open for the ECT’s first annual national conference on LTEs this year, in partnership with BES’s Plants-Soils-Ecosystems SIG. The two-day conference is titled Long-term Ecological Experiments in Plant-Soil Ecosystems and will take place on 21/22 May 2019 at the superb Pavilion Gardens in Buxton, Derbyshire. Further details available on the Journal of Ecology Blog.
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A full video recording of ECT’s thematic session at the BES2018 conference in Birmingham is now available free via our videos webpage. The recording features all our speakers and the ensuing interactive discussion.
Read MoreMaintenance Grant Award
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ECT is pleased to announce the award of a maintenance grant to PI Andreas Heinemeyer at the University of York, who works on the Peatland-ES-UK LTE in north-west England. Andreas will be using ECT funds to replace and upgrade ageing rhizon water samplers across the experiment’s three sites in North Yorkshire and Lancashire. If you are interested in using these sites as research platforms, please view our Peatland-ES-UK webpage.
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ECT’s December newsletter is now published and headlines with the latest new pages on our website and an update on the Peatland-ES-UK LTE. It also highlights our on-going 10th anniversary activities, plans for our 2019 meeting, and our small grants scheme.
Read MoreSpeaker Programme
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ECT’s tenth anniversary celebration session at this month’s BES2018 conference in Birmingham takes place on Tuesday 18 December in Hall 1 from 3pm to 5.15pm. Download the speaker programme here.
Read MoreECT Tenth Anniversary Publication
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To help celebrate ECT’s tenth anniversary, the BES family of journals has published a cross-journal Virtual Issue on Long-term ecological experiments forever! - Unique challenges and opportunities, edited by Emma Sayer and ECT Trustee Jonathan Silvertown.
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Prescribed moorland burning may not be as damaging as previously thought. See latest publication in Nature Geoscience by Rob Marrs et al on research at Hard Hill long-term experiment on the Moor House NNR in Upper Teesdale. An associated press release from the University of Liverpool is available.
Read MoreSmall Grant Award
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ECT 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.
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