ECT’s quarterly newsletter for June is now published via our newsletter archive page. It includes updates from the BIFoR-FACE, Bamford Edge, Sourhope and Peatland-ES-UK experiments, together with news of our work with BES on landscape-scale studies (see earlier news item below) and a reminder about recruitment to the ECT’s Volunteer Pool.
Read MoreA new paper has just been published in the Journal of Environmental Management from the Bamford Edge long-term bracken control/grassland recovery experiment in Derbyshire. Authored by PI Rob Marrs (University of Liverpool) and colleagues, the paper describes how upland acid grasslands can recover following different bracken controls. See also our website bibliography for this LTE.
Read MoreECT’s December newsletter is now published via our newsletter archive page. It includes updates from the Bamford/Hordron Edge, Glen Finglas and Moor House experiments, together with reports on recent ECT site visits to LTEs, the addition of a further ‘new’ experiment to our national register, and the first news on our remit expansion to include certain types of long-term monitoring studies.
Read MoreECT’s ninth webinar is coming up on 20 August, featuring guest speaker Rob Marrs from the University of Liverpool who will discuss the impacts of the Hordron Edge and Bamford Edge bracken control experiments after 20+ years. This will be followed by a discussion with participants on the future use of the plots. For further details, register via our ‘Webinars’ page.
Read MoreListen to the charismatic Rob Marrs of Liverpool University bringing to life the research and its impacts from the Hordron/Bamford Edge long-term bracken control experiments in Derbyshire.
Read More'Ecological restoration: Soil microbes call the shots'. Marrs (2016). Nature Plants. Letter looking at the use of soil microbes in ecological restoration, and how they can help ‘design’ new target communities more subtly.
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