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EXEC’S CORNER A very warm welcome to our April newsletter, a time of year which heralds the beginning of the growing season at many of the 36 currently-active long-term experiments on our register and is a busy fieldwork time for research teams. There are two features from this month’s newsletter below which I would like to take the opportunity to highlight. The first is to remind you all of the upcoming major scientific symposium on Resilient Landscapes for People, Nature and Climate in June in Birmingham, led by the British Ecological Society (BES). ECT is a hosting partner in this event, alongside the RSPB, WWF-UK, UKCEH, Natural England, the Woodland Trust and the National Trust. With around 150 delegate places available, it is important that the symposium attracts a wide range of stakeholders in the landscape management space, and particularly large private landowners. Delegate registration closes on 7 June and you can follow the links further below for additional detail on the programme. The second highlight is George Peterken’s guest article for the ECT which appeared in the spring issue of BES’s The Niche publication. George calls for the establishment of an ecological archives centre, following an interesting narrative on how data and other materials from long-term studies can easily be lost or survive by pure serendipity. For those readers who are members of our LTE User Group, please can I encourage you to complete ECT’s online survey prompted by this article if you have not already done so. The survey will remain open until mid May. Thank you. Ben Sykes
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