A 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 MoreECT has completed two days of filming during the first week of September at four of the LTEs on our national register - Park Grass, BCCIL, BIFoR-FACE and Wicken Fen Vision. The footage will be used to prepare a new corporate film about LTEs and our charitable work.
Read MoreAnimal cell biologist Patrizia Ferretti from University College London attended our guided visit to the 168-year-long Park Grass experiment in Hertfordshire on 11 May. She provides an interesting account and perspective on the visit in this blog post for us. The visit was held in partnership with the Royal Society of Biology’s London Branch.
Read MoreAccess a recording of our most recent webinar (15 March) with Jon Storkey from Rothamsted Research speaking about how the world-famous Park Grass experiment is still delivering new science after 168 years. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to receive direct notifications of new webinar recordings, posted every two months.
Read MoreOn Friday 15 March, ECT will be hosting its next two-monthly webinar with speaker Jonathan Storkey from Rothamsted Research. Jon will be presenting on 168 years of research at the Park Grass experiment in Hertfordshire and how it continues to deliver new and relevant science. See our webinars page for further details and registration.
Read MoreRegistration is now open for a tour of the Park Grass long-term experiment in Harpenden, Hertfordshire taking place on Saturday 11 May 2024. Organised by ECT and the London Branch of the Royal Society of Biology (RSB), the half-day tour will include a visit to the famous sample archives at Rothamsted Research.
Read MoreECT 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.
Read MoreECT was delighted to partner with the Agrifood & Biosciences Institute in Northern Ireland last week (16 September) to celebrate 50 years of continuous research at the Hillsborough long-term slurry (LTS) addition experiment 20 miles south of Belfast. Held outdoors under COVID-19 restrictions, the co-sponsored event attracted 35 delegates and featured an excellent keynote talk from Jon Storkey of Rothamsted Research, who spoke about the Park Grass experiment and the importance of long-term ecological experiments in general.
Read MorePerryman et al have recently published an important paper on data curation from the Rothamsted long-term experiments, including Park Grass and Broadbalk. The electronic Research Archive (e-RA) is a model for online data curation from LTEs. See Nature Science Data 15 May 2018
Read MoreAn article has been published recently in Advances in Ecological Research highlighting the contribution of the Rothamsted's Long-term Experiments (LTEs), Sample Archive and Insect Survey to ecological research. It concludes that the LTEs, Sample Archive and insect collection continue to be as valuable today as when they originally began.
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