ECT’s next two-monthly webinar is scheduled for 14 April 2023 and will feature guest speakers Christine Watson and Rob Graham from the Scottish Rural College (SRUC). Christine and Rob will be speaking about 32 years of research at the SRUC Tulloch agroecological rotation experiment. For further details and to register, access our ‘Webinars’ page.
Read MoreAccess a recording of our most recent webinar (10 February) featuring Mara Lawniczak and Lyndall Pereira from the Sanger Institute in Cambridge, speaking about the BIOSCAN flying insect biodiversity sequencing project. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to receive notifications of new webinar recordings, posted every two months.
Read MoreA four-page feature article on long-term ecological field experiments and why they are essential to science and society - with a focus on climate change - has been published in the Spring 2023 issue of the Royal Society of Biology’s member magazine The Biologist.
Read MoreTwo new reports and a further online publication have emerged from the Peatland-ES-UK long-term moorland management experiment located on three sites across North Yorkshire and East Lancashire. Authored by PI Andreas Heinemeyer (University of York), the reports describe in detail the first decade of results from the experiment. See our website bibliography for this LTE.
Read MoreAccess a recording of our most recent webinar (9 December) featuring Mike Morecroft, Principal Specialist for Climate Change at Natural England, speaking about Climate change and long-term ecological field experiments. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to receive notifications of new webinar recordings, posted every two months.
Read MoreECT’s next two-monthly webinar is scheduled for 10 February 2023 and will feature guest speakers Lyndall Pereira da Conceicoa and Mara Lawniczak from the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge. Lyndall and Mara will be speaking about the 5-year BIOSCAN project to monitor the diversity of flying insects across 100 sites using DNA sequencing. They will be supported by project participant Kris Hart from the BIFoR-FACE LTE who will briefly ‘champion’ wider LTE involvement in the project. For further details and to register, access our ‘Webinars’ page.
Read MoreECT will have an exhibition stand at the British Ecological Society’s Annual Meeting in Edinburgh, 18-21 December. Please stop by Stand 2 if you are attending the event to try out our latest Virtual Reality headset tour of the local Whim Bog experiment, or browse some free ecology books to take away for a suggested optional donation to ECT.
Read MoreECT has awarded its latest maintenance grant to Andreas Heinemeyer at the University of York towards service and repair costs for a CO₂ gas analyser used across all three sites of the Peatland-ES-UK long-term heather moorland management experiment.
Read MoreThis month’s edition of the BES quarterly magazine The Niche features an article on the Wicken Fen Vision grazing experiment in Cambridgeshire, recently registered with ECT. The article is co-authored with PI Francine Hughes from Anglia Ruskin University.
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