ECT has awarded its latest Small Grant to Scott Hayward at the University of Birmingham towards the costs of species-level identification of the insect sample archive taken from the BIFoR-FACE climate change experiment in Staffordshire. Samples are being processed for DNA barcoding as part of the UK-wide BIOSCAN project run by the Sanger Institute.
Read MoreAccess a recording of our most recent webinar (30 June) with Raj Whitlock from the University of Liverpool speaking about 30 years of research at the Buxton Climate Change Impacts Laboratory (BCCIL) in Derbyshire. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to receive direct notifications of new webinar recordings, posted every two months.
Read MoreOn 13 July, ECT visited the most recent long-term experiment to be added to our national register - the Tulloch agroecological rotational experiment at Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) in Aberdeenshire, running for 33 years! Look out next month for the podcast interview recorded at the site with Principal Investigator Christine Watson and colleagues, which will be available via ECT’s SoundCloud platform.
Read MoreECT took its exhibition stand to the BIFoR Annual Meeting in Birmingham on 4-5 July, making available to delegates our latest Virtual Reality (VR) headset experience for the Whim Bog long-term experiment in Scotland. You can read more about the wider conference on the BIFoR website.
Read MoreIn close partnership with UKCEH Bangor and our technology providers Maple Bay Games/Aerialworx drone-filming, ECT spent two days in mid-Wales this month taking 360-degree film footage of the Plynlimon Catchments long-term term land use experiment. This will form the basis of our latest Virtual Reality (VR) headset experience which will ‘debut’ at the BES 2023 Annual Meeting in Belfast 12-15 December. Be sure to try it out!
Read MoreECT’s quarterly newsletter for June is now published via our newsletter archive page. It includes updates from the BIFoR-FACE, Bamford Edge, Sourhope and Peatland-ES-UK experiments, together with news of our work with BES on landscape-scale studies (see earlier news item below) and a reminder about recruitment to the ECT’s Volunteer Pool.
Read MoreECT has awarded its latest Small Grant to Roberto Salguero-Gómez at the University of Oxford towards the costs of consumables for tracking plant community resilience using phenocams and artificial intelligence (AI) at the RainDrop long-term drought experiment at Wytham Woods.
Read MoreIn close partnership with the British Ecological Society (BES), ECT hosted an invitation-only workshop in London on 21 June which brought together almost 40 of the UK’s major landowners with interests in landscape-scale transformation. The main purpose of the workshop was to connect stakeholders and begin discussions around best practice for the design and implementation of landscape-scale experiments, living laboratories and wholescapes.
Read MoreA new paper has just been published in the Journal of Environmental Management from the Bamford Edge long-term bracken control/grassland recovery experiment in Derbyshire. Authored by PI Rob Marrs (University of Liverpool) and colleagues, the paper describes how upland acid grasslands can recover following different bracken controls. See also our website bibliography for this LTE.
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