A brand-new webpage for the long-term Llyn Brianne stream catchments experiment in mid-Wales is now available on our website. Follow the link above for our ‘new look’ to our site pages, containing a mine of information for multiple audiences. The Llyn Brianne experiment has now been running for 41 years.
Read MoreThe Tulloch long-term grassland experiment in Aberdeenshire, Scotland has joined ECT’s national network of currently active LTEs. Running since 1991 under the care of Christine Watson from Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), this is an agroecological experiment studying how legumes support livestock and crop production whilst also supplying other ecosystem services such as biodiversity. Look out for a new webpage for this LTE and view our ‘Sites’ page for information on all the LTEs on ECT’s register.
Read MoreJonathan Silvertown (one of ECT’s founding trustees) provides a synopsis of the key messages which emerged from our Fringe Event on Long-term ecological field experiments - opportunities for soil scientists at the 2022 World Congress of Soil Science in Glasgow on 4 August. Read Jonathan’s blog.
Read MoreAccess a recording of our most recent webinar (7 October) featuring Richard Bardgett, Professor of Ecology at the University of Manchester, speaking about the Colt Park Meadows long-term grassland restoration experiment in the Yorkshire Dales. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to receive notifications of new webinar recordings, posted every two months.
Read MoreDavid Gowing from the Open University describes for us his recent experience of using a special ECT data curation grant to digitise and secure for all-time the 30+-year dataset from the Somerford Mead long-term grazing and restoration experiment in Oxfordshire. The data are now secured in NERC’s Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) and accessible to all. Read David’s blog.
Read MoreA brand-new webpage for the BangorDIVERSE long-term tree diversity experiment in North Wales is now available on our website. Follow the link above for our ‘new look’ to our site pages, containing a mine of information for multiple audiences. The BangorDIVERSE experiment has now been running for 18 years.
Read MoreUsing an ECT special data curation grant, David Gowing and colleagues at the Open University have digitised over 30 years of data from the Somerford Mead grassland grazing experiment in Oxfordshire and deposited it in NERC’s Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC), giving access for all. Access the dataset.
Read MoreECT’s quarterly newsletter for September is now published via our newsletter archive page. It includes an update from the BIFoR-FACE experiment (new publication), reports on our major events across the summer, and exciting news about the Somerford Mead LTE dataset (decades-long) being secured for all in NERC’s Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC).
Read MoreECT has awarded its latest Small Grant to PhD student William Hagan Brown at the University of Plymouth for equipment purchase associated with his project at the BIFoR-FACE long-term CO₂ elevation experiment in Staffordshire. Our award will contribute towards the costs of thermocouples for supplementary measurements of oak leaf temperature in the woodland canopy under elevated CO₂.
Read MoreThis month’s edition of the BES quarterly magazine The Niche features an article on the Plynlimon Catchments LTE in mid-Wales, co-authored with PI Bridget Emmett from UKCEH Bangor.
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