ECT’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 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 MoreOn Friday 31 January, ECT will be hosting its next two-monthly webinar with speaker Sara Middleton from the University of Oxford. Sara will be speaking on “plant life stories” from the first 8 years of the RainDrop rainfall/drought experiment in Oxfordshire. See our webinars page for further details and registration.
Read MoreA new paper arising from the first 6 years of research at the RainDrop experiment has been published in the Journal of Ecology titled ‘Differential responses of community-level functional traits to mid- and late-season experimental drought in a temperate grassland’.
Read MoreECT has awarded its latest Small Grant to Roberto Salguero-Gómez at the University of Oxford towards the costs of consumables for tracking plant community resilience using phenocams and artificial intelligence (AI) at the RainDrop long-term drought experiment at Wytham Woods.
Read MoreThe University of Oxford has published a new RainDrop video as part of its ongoing series Laboratory with Leaves. Titled The Climate Time Machine, the video features PI Andy Hector and researcher Sara Middleton explaining the importance of this LTE at Wytham.
Read MoreECT’s March newsletter is now published and available to view here. This comes with a ‘new look’ provided by ECT’s new Communications Officer Danae Dodge and includes updates from the RainDrop and BIFoR teams, together with new webpages for two experiments, changes to our Small Grants Scheme and a reminder on our upcoming webinar with Martin Lester from the National Trust (30 March).
Read MoreOxford Sparks, the online portal for public engagement with science across the University of Oxford, has just published a video on the RainDrop long-term drought experiment at Wytham Woods in Oxfordshire. Access the video via ECT’s YouTube playlist.
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