Newsletter

Newsletter

ECT’s quarterly newsletter for March is now published via our newsletter archive page. It includes updates from the Peatland-ES-UK (new publications), MOORCO and Brignant Plots experiments, together with news of our new links with Pasture for Life (PfL) and our renewed call for people to join the ECT’s Volunteer Pool.

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First LTM/LTE ‘Hubs’ Announced

First LTM/LTE ‘Hubs’ Announced

ECT is pleased to announce its first careful steps in the expansion of its remit to include certain types of professionally-run long-term monitoring studies (LTMs). Following a call earlier this year, we have launched three new ‘hubs’ which link up LTMs with existing LTEs on our national register. These are built around the MOORCO experiment in Glensaugh, Scotland; the Park Grass experiment in Hertfordshire; and the North Wyke Farm Platform in Devon. They will be featured in a brand-new section of our website currently under development.

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First publication from MOORCO LTE

First publication from MOORCO LTE

The first paper to emerge from the MOORCO LTE sites in Aberdeenshire has just been published by Ruth Mitchell (James Hutton Institute) and others in Global Change Biology. The paper reveals the impact of tree planting in organic soils on carbon sequestration over decadal timescales and is available in the journal Global Change Biology. MOORCO LTE has been running since 1980.

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