Access a recording of our most recent webinar held 21 July, featuring Jason Reeves, Head of Policy & Communications at CIEEM, speaking about ‘The Role & Activities of the Chartered Institute of Ecology & Environmental Management (CIEEM)’. Recordings of previous webinars are also available via our YouTube channel.
Read MoreA recording of our joint webinar with CIEEM, held 16 July, on ‘Identifying Long-term Evidence Needs for Biodiversity Net Gain’ is now available via CIEEM’s website. Organised as a panel discussion, the webinar featured ECT Trustee Ken Thompson, with 140 participants joining.
Read MoreThe latest paper to emerge from over 30 years work at the Wardlow Hay Cop upland grassland experiment in Derbyshire has been published by Chris Taylor and colleagues at the University of Sheffield in Biogeosciences. You can view the publication via our Wardlow bibliography.
Read MoreECT is pleased to announce the award of its latest Small Grant to PhD student Chris Taylor at the University of Sheffield for student subsistence costs associated with a summer research project at the Wardlow Hay Cop LTE. The work will be looking at how nitrogen and phosphorus-limited grassland plants respond to elevated CO₂ and nutrient addition.
Read MoreECT’s June newsletter is now published via our newsletter archive page in a completely new web-based format designed by our Communications Officer Danae Dodge. It includes an update from the Buxton team, together with reports on recent ECT site visits to LTEs, new awards under our Small Grants Scheme and a reminder on our upcoming webinar with Jason Reeves from CIEEM (21 July).
Read MoreECT is pleased to announce the award of its latest Small Grant to Dr Josep Barba at the Birmingham Institute of Forest Research (BIFoR) for project work at the BIFoR-FACE CO₂ elevation experiment in Staffordshire. Our grant will be used towards field consumables for measuring tree stem CO₂ and methane fluxes under elevated atmospheric CO₂ in the mature oak woodland arrays at BIFoR-FACE.
Read MoreListen to Dario Fornara of the Agri-Food & Biosciences Institute (AFBI) in Northern Ireland bringing to life the research and its impacts from the 51-year-long nutrient addition experiment at Hillsborough, a few miles south of Belfast. Further background to the experiment, together with images and a comprehensive list of publications, can be found on our Hillsborough webpage.
Read MoreAdam 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.
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