Our joint symposium on Resilient Landscapes with BES and other NGO partners is taking place on 24/25 June in Birmingham. The Early Bird delegate registration deadline is 5pm on Friday 24 May, after which registration will remain open until Friday 7 June but at the full delegate rate. See the BES website for further details.
Read MoreECT’s now two-monthly newsletter for April is published via our newsletter archive page. It includes an update on our upcoming joint symposium on Resilient Landscapes with BES and other NGO partners on 24/25 June, together with news from the BIFoR-FACE and Peatland ES-UK LTEs on our national register.
Read MoreECT has awarded a small grant to Andreas Heinemeyer at the University of York for comparative peat coring and sample analysis costs at the 70-year-long Moor House Hard Hill grazing/upland management experiment in upper Teesdale.
Read MoreECT is pleased to announce a new strategic partnership with the charity Ramble Worldwide Outdoor Trust who will be contributing co-funding to our Small Grants Scheme over the next 5 years. Trustees of Ramble Worldwide Outdoor Trust have a passion to conserve, protect and enhance the environment to enable greater access to the outdoors for all, which complements ECT’s network of ecological field experiments located in mostly remote rural locations.
Read MoreA further new paper has recently been published from the BIFoR-FACE long-term CO₂ elevation experiment in oak woodland in Staffordshire. Authored by Rob MacKenzie and colleagues (University of Birmingham), the paper in the Journal of Forestry Research describes how elevated CO₂ is affecting acorn production. See also our website bibliography for this LTE.
Read MoreAccess a recording of our most recent webinar (15 March) with Jon Storkey from Rothamsted Research speaking about how the world-famous Park Grass experiment is still delivering new science after 168 years. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to receive direct notifications of new webinar recordings, posted every two months.
Read MoreECT has awarded a maintenance grant to Robin Pakeman at the James Hutton Institute as a contribution to the costs of repairing damaged fencing around the grazing plots at the 22-year-long Glen Finglas upland grazing experiment in west Scotland.
Read MoreAccess a recording of our previous webinar (24 November) with John Langley-Randall from ADAS speaking about the impacts of mob grazing upon soil health. This follows two recent studies funded by Natural England and Defra. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to receive direct notifications of new webinar recordings, posted every two months.
Read MoreA new paper has been published in the journal Food & Energy Security from the BIFoR-FACE long-term CO₂ elevation experiment in oak woodland in Staffordshire. Authored by Rob MacKenzie and colleagues (University of Birmingham), the paper describes how the BIFoR-FACE LTE is contributing to better policymaking around tree planting and woodland management. See also our website bibliography for this LTE.
Read MoreThis month’s edition of the BES quarterly magazine The Niche features an article co-authored with George Peterken (Lady Park Wood LTE) on the vulnerability of long-term ecological datasets, serendipity and the need for an ecological archives centre.
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