Adam Kiani from the Birmingham Institute of Forest Research shares his recent experience of an ECT-supported project to establish a long-term archive of leaf-litter samples from the BIFoR-FACE elevated CO₂ experiment in Staffordshire. Read his blog post, and read more about the BIFoR-FACE LTE, running continuously since 2017.
Read MoreAccess a recording of our most recent webinar held 19 May, featuring Lisa Chilton, CEO of the NBN Trust, speaking about ‘The National Biodiversity Network Trust - Maximising the Impacts of Biological Records’. Recordings of previous webinars are also available via our YouTube channel.
Read MoreECT is pleased to announce the award of its latest Small Grant to new Principal Investigator Jill Kowal at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew towards the renewal of the Thursley Common nitrogen addition experiment in Surrey. Our grant will be used towards travel and consumables for measuring the ability of heathland vegetation and belowground mycorrhizal fungal communities to recover 10 years after persistent elevated nitrogen treatments.
Read MoreECT has registered the long-term Llyn Brianne river ecosystem experiment in central Wales in our national network of active LTEs. Running for over 30 years, and managed by Steve Ormerod at Cardiff University, Llyn Brianne is one of the longest-running catchment projects anywhere in the world and has been a key source of evidence and policy advice on river ecocsystems. Pending a new webpage for this LTE, you can read more on the Cardiff University website. View our ‘Sites’ page for wider information about all the sites in our network.
Read MoreECT marks the recent passing away of Professor Phil Grime with an affectionate and moving tribute to his life available now on our ‘Blog’ page. Authored by ECT trustee Ken Thompson who was a close colleague of Phil’s at the University of Sheffield, the tribute pays homage to Phil as a leading plant ecologist and founder of the now-famous Buxton Climate Change Impacts Laboratory in Derbyshire.
Read MoreECT’s next webinar is coming up on 19 May, featuring guest speaker Lisa Chilton, newly-appointed Chief Executive of the National Biodiversity Network (NBN). Lisa will be presenting on the work of the NBN Trust and its interface with other NGOs. This will be followed by our usual moderated Q&A with participants. For further details and to register, access our ‘Webinars’ page. The recording of our previous webinar with Martin Lester is now available to view from our YouTube channel.
Read MoreFollowing our joint online conference with CIEEM earlier this month, speakers’ presentations are now available to all in PDF form via CIEEM’s website. For attending delegates, full recordings of presentations are available to view via the Whova conference platform.
Read MoreECT’s March newsletter is now published and available to view here. This comes with a ‘new look’ provided by ECT’s new Communications Officer Danae Dodge and includes updates from the RainDrop and BIFoR teams, together with new webpages for two experiments, changes to our Small Grants Scheme and a reminder on our upcoming webinar with Martin Lester from the National Trust (30 March).
Read MoreECT is pleased to announce the award of its latest Small Grant to PhD student Katy Faulkner at the University of Warwick for travel and consumables costs associated with a student project at the BIFoR-FACE long-term experiment in oak woodland in Staffordshire. The work will be looking at the impact of high rainfall events on forest soil microbes under the future (elevated) atmospheric CO₂ levels currently being simulated at the experiment.
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