We will be hosting our next two-monthly webinar on Friday 21 March 2025 with speaker Cicely Marshall from the University of Cambridge. Cicely will be speaking on her ECT-funded work using a range of LTEs on our register to test Defra’s biodiversity metric. See our webinars page for further details and registration.
Read MoreA new Trustee has been appointed to ECT’s Board with effect from 1 January 2025. We welcome Ciara Dwyer from Lund University in Sweden to our team. View a short ‘bio’ for Ciara alongside our full Board membership on our ‘About’ page. We also express our gratitude to Trustee Chas Holt for his dedicated service, who stepped down in July last year.
Read MoreECT has awarded its first small grant of the new calendar year to Andrew Hacket-Pain at the University of Liverpool, working in collaboration with John Healey and colleagues at Bangor University. The award is for consumables and travel costs for this year’s transect monitoring fieldwork at the Lady Park Wood long-term experiment in Gloucestershire. This award has been co-funded by our grants scheme partner charity Ramble Worldwide Outdoor Trust.
Read MoreA new paper from the 23-year-long Glen Finglas upland grazing experiment in northwest Scotland has just been published in the Journal of Avian Biology titled: ‘Assessing the impacts of livestock grazing on upland bird breeding territories using drone surveys’.
Read MoreOne of ECT’s founding trustees, Jonathan Silvertown, writes about the ‘pre-history’ to the RainDrop experiment which even pre-dated the formation of ECT as a charity. Read it here.
Read MoreAccess a recording of our most recent webinar (31 January) with plant ecologist Sara Middleton from the University of Oxford. Sara speaks about the first eight years of results emerging from the RainDrop long-term drought and enhanced rainfall experiment located at Wytham Woods in Oxfordshire. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to receive direct notifications of new webinar recordings when they are uploaded.
Read MoreECT joined forces with Natural England, the JNCC and Royal Botanic Gardens Kew to help prepare, design and install a brand new interpretation board for the long-term pollution deposition and recovery experiment (now called APRI) at Thursley Common in Surrey. This reinvigorated LTE with a new team builds on the work of Sally Power who started the original experiment at the site in 1989.
Read MoreA new paper from the 169-year-long Park Grass experiment has just been published in the journal npj Biodiversity titled: ‘Trade-off between pollinator-wildflower diversity & grassland yields’. The Guardian picked up on this publication with their article High fertiliser use halves numbers of pollinators, world’s longest study finds.
Read MoreOn Friday 31 January, ECT will be hosting its next two-monthly webinar with speaker Sara Middleton from the University of Oxford. Sara will be speaking on “plant life stories” from the first 8 years of the RainDrop rainfall/drought experiment in Oxfordshire. See our webinars page for further details and registration.
Read MoreECT’s latest two-monthly newsletter for December is published via our newsletter archive page. It includes news on the launch of our latest virtual reality (VR) tour of an LTE - the North Wyke Farm Platform in Devon - together with the publication of our new Strategic Plan, our final small grant awards of 2024, the addition of a new LTE to our national register (Loughgall agroforestry experiment in Northern Ireland) and an update on the BIFoR-FACE climate change experiment in Staffordshire.
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