Access a recording of our previous webinar (24 November) with John Langley-Randall from ADAS speaking about the impacts of mob grazing upon soil health. This follows two recent studies funded by Natural England and Defra. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to receive direct notifications of new webinar recordings, posted every two months.
Read MoreA new paper has been published in the journal Food & Energy Security from the BIFoR-FACE long-term CO₂ elevation experiment in oak woodland in Staffordshire. Authored by Rob MacKenzie and colleagues (University of Birmingham), the paper describes how the BIFoR-FACE LTE is contributing to better policymaking around tree planting and woodland management. See also our website bibliography for this LTE.
Read MoreThis month’s edition of the BES quarterly magazine The Niche features an article co-authored with George Peterken (Lady Park Wood LTE) on the vulnerability of long-term ecological datasets, serendipity and the need for an ecological archives centre.
Read MoreRegistration is now open for a major two-day science symposium on Resilient Landscapes for People, Nature & Climate led by the British Ecological Society in partnership with ECT and other key stakeholders. The event takes place in Birmingham on 24-25 June. Book the date!
Read MoreECT’s now two-monthly newsletter for February is published via our newsletter archive page. It includes further news of our work with BES on landscape-scale studies, together with news on vital renewal work at the Nash’s Field experiment and the latest new journal publications from LTEs at Wardlow Hay Cop and Rothamsted.
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 MoreIn close partnership with the British Ecological Society (BES), the National Trust, WWF-UK, RSPB, Natural England, UKCEH and the Woodland Trust, ECT hosted a second invitation-only workshop in London on 25 January which again brought together around 30 of the UK’s major landowners with interests in landscape-scale transformation. The main purpose of the workshop was to advance the community-building activity begun at the first workshop, and to establish a vision for the sharing and on-going development of best practice for landscape-scale experiments, living laboratories and monitoring frameworks.
Read MoreA new paper has just been published in the journal Global Change Biology from the Wardlow Hay Cop long-term grassland experiment in Derbyshire. Authored by Chris Taylor, Gareth Phoenix and others (University of Sheffield), the publication describes how nutrient inputs interact with rising CO₂ to change the plant community in phosphorus-limited grasslands. See also our website bibliography for this LTE.
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