A new paper has emerged from the Pound Hill soil disturbance/timing experiment at Silwood Park in Berkshire. Authored by Mick Crawley (Imperial College) in British & Irish Botany, the paper covers the long-term implications of the timing of soil cultivation for plant community structure.
Read MoreECT’s quarterly newsletter for March is now published via our newsletter archive page. It includes updates and new publications from the Cors Fochno, Pound Hill and BIFoR-FACE experiments, together with a report from the recent BES conference in Liverpool and details on our efforts to engage with the soil science community in both strategic and research contexts.
Read MoreA recording of the Zoom Into Soil webinar hosted jointly by the British Society of Soil Science (BSSS) and ECT on 2 March is now available via the BSSS YouTube channel. The webinar was titled ‘A Successful Garden Above & Below Ground and featured two talks, firstly from Jon Dickinson (aka ‘The Handsome Gardener’) followed by Jill Kowal (Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, pictured) who manages the Thursley Common experiment on our national register.
Read MoreECT is pleased to announce the award of its latest Small Grant to Dr Cicely Marshall at the University of Cambridge for work at multiple LTEs on our national register. Our grant will be used towards travel and subsistence to calculate biodiversity units at ECT sites using Natural England’s Biodiversity Metric 3.0 and to validate metric performance.
Read MoreECT’s next webinar is coming up on 18 March 2022, featuring guest speaker Bruce Lascelles from Arcadis who is current President of the British Society of Soil Science. Bruce will be presenting on engaging more soil scientists in long-term ecological field experiments. This will be followed by our usual moderated Q&A with participants. For further details and to register, access our ‘Webinars’ page.
Read MoreThe British Ecological Society (BES) has launched a new project to identify ‘Grand Challenges’ in UK ecology that can be presented to key funders and science policymakers. Submissions of around 400 words are invited by a deadline of 11 February 2022. Follow the link above for further details.
Read MoreAccess a recording of our first webinar of 2022 (12 January), featuring Steve Ormerod from Cardiff University speaking about ‘Forty Years of Continuous Research at Llyn Brianne Stream Catchments in Wales’. Recordings of previous webinars are also available via our YouTube channel.
Read MoreThe latest paper to emerge from the first ten years of work at the climate change manipulation experiment at Cors Fochno near Aberystwyth in mid-Wales has been published by Luke Andrews (University of York) and collaborators in Global Change Biology. The paper covers how plant communities are altering under climate change simulations in a pristine Welsh raised bog.
Read MoreAccess a recording of our most recent webinar held 26 November, featuring Simon Peacock from Newcastle University speaking about ‘More Than a Century of Grassland Research at Palace Leas Long-term Experiment’. Recordings of previous webinars are also available via our YouTube channel.
Read MoreECT is pleased to announce its first careful steps in the expansion of its remit to include certain types of professionally-run long-term monitoring studies (LTMs). Following a call earlier this year, we have launched three new ‘hubs’ which link up LTMs with existing LTEs on our national register. These are built around the MOORCO experiment in Glensaugh, Scotland; the Park Grass experiment in Hertfordshire; and the North Wyke Farm Platform in Devon. They will be featured in a brand-new section of our website currently under development.
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