The spring edition of the BES quarterly magazine The Niche features our article on the Buxton Climate Change Impacts Laboratory (BCCIL). It is guest-authored by the BCCIL team and highlights how the experiment serves as a research platform for all to come and use (by arrangement).
Read MoreECT’s latest podcast is now published on SoundCloud featuring Andy Hector (University of Oxford) and Clare Lawson (Open University) interviewed at the RainDrop drought/enhanced rainfall experiment at Wytham Woods, now in its ninth year.
Read MoreECT’s first two-monthly newsletter of the year is now published via our newsletter archive page. It includes news on several recent activities associated with the RainDrop long-term drought/enhanced rainfall experiment at Wytham, together with our first small grant award of 2025, updates on the Thursley Common and Cors Fochno LTEs and links to some of the latest journal publications from more LTEs on our national register.
Read MoreWe 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.
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