ECT has registered the Rowden long-term draining/grazing experiment at Rothamsted Research’s North Wyke site in its national network of active LTEs. The experiment is led by North Wyke researcher Martin Blackwell and the site is owned by the BBSRC. Read more about all the sites in our network on our ‘Sites’ page.
Read MoreRose et al have published the vegetation monitoring dataset for the Hard Hill burning/grazing LTE at Moor House in Upper Teesdale via NERC's Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC), covering the period 1961 to 2013. Access the data from the Environmental Information Data Centre.
Read MoreFollowing the recent addition of two further LTEs to ECT’s register, new webpages have now been published for the Ainsdale Dune Slacks grazing experiment in West Lancashire, and the BIFoR-FACE elevated CO₂ experiment in Staffordshire.
Read MoreECT’s June newsletter is now published and headlines with two ‘new’ experiments added to our national register of sites. There is also a significant update on the Glen Finglas LTE, news on appointments to our Board of Trustees, and a piece on the highlights from our first national two-day science meeting in Buxton.
Read MoreECT is pleased to announce the award of a small grant to Jon Millett at Loughborough University. Our funds will be used towards the costs of installing dipwells and associated water table depth loggers at each of the four dune slacks comprising the Ainsdale Dune Slacks long-term experiment in West Lancashire. The data generated, alongside existing data, will enable the reconstruction of a 45-year time-series of water table depth.
Read MoreA new publication has emerged from the Glen Finglas long-term grazing experiment, northwest of Stirling in Scotland - Long‐term impacts of changed grazing regimes on the vegetation of heterogeneous upland grasslands.
Read MoreECT is pleased to announce the award of its latest small grant to Ramesh Ningthoujam at Imperial College Silwood Park. Ramesh will be working with Colin Prentice on quantifying grass chlorophyll content (CC), leaf area index (LAI) and productivity relationships at the Nash’s Field long-term experiment. The work is aiming to produce maps of spatial and temporal variations in CC and LAI in response to treatments via vegetation indices.
Read MoreThree new Trustees have been appointed to ECT’s Board with effect from 1 June 2019. We welcome Bridget Emmett (CEH Bangor), Kadmiel Maseyk (Open University) and Chas Holt (consultant ecologist) to our team. View the full Board membership on our ‘About’ page. We also pay tribute to founding Trustee Mike Morecroft who is stepping down after ten years’ loyal service to pursue a new role in climate change with the IPCC.
Read MoreThe impact of prescribed burning of peatlands on Sphagnum health, including research conducted on the Moor House long-term experiment in Upper Teesdale. Read the publication in Ecological Indicators.
Read MoreECT has registered the Ainsdale Dunes long-term herbivore grazing experiment in its network of active research sites. Also known as the Sally Edmondson plots, the site is managed by Loughborough ecologist Jonathan Millett and owned by Natural England as part of its Ainsdale Dunes National Nature Reserve (NNR).
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