Registration is now open for a major two-day science symposium on Resilient Landscapes for People, Nature & Climate led by the British Ecological Society in partnership with ECT and other key stakeholders. The event takes place in Birmingham on 24-25 June. Book the date!
Read MoreECT’s now two-monthly newsletter for February is published via our newsletter archive page. It includes further news of our work with BES on landscape-scale studies, together with news on vital renewal work at the Nash’s Field experiment and the latest new journal publications from LTEs at Wardlow Hay Cop and Rothamsted.
Read MoreOn Friday 15 March, ECT will be hosting its next two-monthly webinar with speaker Jonathan Storkey from Rothamsted Research. Jon will be presenting on 168 years of research at the Park Grass experiment in Hertfordshire and how it continues to deliver new and relevant science. See our webinars page for further details and registration.
Read MoreRegistration is now open for a tour of the Park Grass long-term experiment in Harpenden, Hertfordshire taking place on Saturday 11 May 2024. Organised by ECT and the London Branch of the Royal Society of Biology (RSB), the half-day tour will include a visit to the famous sample archives at Rothamsted Research.
Read MoreIn close partnership with the British Ecological Society (BES), the National Trust, WWF-UK, RSPB, Natural England, UKCEH and the Woodland Trust, ECT hosted a second invitation-only workshop in London on 25 January which again brought together around 30 of the UK’s major landowners with interests in landscape-scale transformation. The main purpose of the workshop was to advance the community-building activity begun at the first workshop, and to establish a vision for the sharing and on-going development of best practice for landscape-scale experiments, living laboratories and monitoring frameworks.
Read MoreA new paper has just been published in the journal Global Change Biology from the Wardlow Hay Cop long-term grassland experiment in Derbyshire. Authored by Chris Taylor, Gareth Phoenix and others (University of Sheffield), the publication describes how nutrient inputs interact with rising CO₂ to change the plant community in phosphorus-limited grasslands. See also our website bibliography for this LTE.
Read MoreCome and find us next week in Belfast 12-15 December at Stand No.17 in the exhibition hall at the British Ecological Society’s 2023 Annual Meeting. We will be showcasing our latest VR experience for the Plynlimon Research Catchments experiment installed on our brand new Oculus Quest 2 headsets. The virtual hot-air-balloon flight is not to be missed!
Read MoreECT has awarded a maintenance grant to Catalina Estrada at Imperial College Silwood Park as a contribution to the costs of repairing the fencing around the grazing exclosures at the 30-year-long Nash’s Field grazing and fertilisation experiment at Silwood Park, Berkshire.
Read MoreECT has awarded its latest Small Grant to Konstans Wells at Swansea University towards consumables costs for comparing gut microbiome-parasite status and health in grazing animals feeding on different grasslands at the Rowden Plots long-term field experiment in North Wyke, Devon.
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