A four-page feature article on long-term ecological field experiments and why they are essential to science and society - with a focus on climate change - has been published in the Spring 2023 issue of the Royal Society of Biology’s member magazine The Biologist.
Read MoreTwo new reports and a further online publication have emerged from the Peatland-ES-UK long-term moorland management experiment located on three sites across North Yorkshire and East Lancashire. Authored by PI Andreas Heinemeyer (University of York), the reports describe in detail the first decade of results from the experiment. See our website bibliography for this LTE.
Read MoreAccess a recording of our most recent webinar (9 December) featuring Mike Morecroft, Principal Specialist for Climate Change at Natural England, speaking about Climate change and long-term ecological field experiments. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to receive notifications of new webinar recordings, posted every two months.
Read MoreECT’s next two-monthly webinar is scheduled for 10 February 2023 and will feature guest speakers Lyndall Pereira da Conceicoa and Mara Lawniczak from the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge. Lyndall and Mara will be speaking about the 5-year BIOSCAN project to monitor the diversity of flying insects across 100 sites using DNA sequencing. They will be supported by project participant Kris Hart from the BIFoR-FACE LTE who will briefly ‘champion’ wider LTE involvement in the project. For further details and to register, access our ‘Webinars’ page.
Read MoreECT will have an exhibition stand at the British Ecological Society’s Annual Meeting in Edinburgh, 18-21 December. Please stop by Stand 2 if you are attending the event to try out our latest Virtual Reality headset tour of the local Whim Bog experiment, or browse some free ecology books to take away for a suggested optional donation to ECT.
Read MoreECT has awarded its latest maintenance grant to Andreas Heinemeyer at the University of York towards service and repair costs for a CO₂ gas analyser used across all three sites of the Peatland-ES-UK long-term heather moorland management experiment.
Read MoreThis month’s edition of the BES quarterly magazine The Niche features an article on the Wicken Fen Vision grazing experiment in Cambridgeshire, recently registered with ECT. The article is co-authored with PI Francine Hughes from Anglia Ruskin University.
Read MoreA 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.
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