A 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’s latest two-monthly newsletter for August is published via our newsletter archive page. It includes news on filming for our latest virtual reality (VR) tour of an LTE, together with an important update on ECT’s small grants scheme and news from the Glen Finglas, SRUC Tulloch and Moor House Hard Hill experiments on our national register.
Read MoreECT has just completed filming at the North Wyke Farm Platform (NWFP) long-term sustainability experiment in Devon. The 360-degree film footage will be used to prepare our next immersive VR tour of a long-term experiment which will be available in our headsets at the BES Annual Meeting in Liverpool on 10-13 December.
Read MoreRead our latest blog post from Cicely Marshall (University of Cambridge) following her ECT-funded work (via our Small Grants Scheme) using several LTEs on our national register to evaluate Defra’s statutory Biodiversity Metric 3.0. Cicely’s results have been published in the Journal of Applied Ecology.
Read MoreDue to unprecedented demand for our Small Grants Scheme in the first half of 2024, our budget for grant awards to LTEs is now fully committed this year. Our grants scheme is therefore closed temporarily to any new applications for the remainder of 2024 and will re-open on 1 January 2025.
Read MoreFollowing our joint symposium held on 24/25 June in partnership with BES and six other NGO partners, the BES have published a very useful summary report of the keynote presentations via their LinkedIn channel. The symposium was titled Resilient Landscapes for People, Nature and Climate and attracted 170 delegates.
Read MoreECT’s latest two-monthly newsletter for June is published via our newsletter archive page. It includes news on the installation of our latest LTE interpretation board at the Lena Ward Plots at Aston Rowant National Nature Reserve (NNR) in Oxfordshire, together with updates on partnerships and grants, and news from the BIFoR-FACE experiment on our national register.
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 MoreA brand-new webpage for the long-term Wicken Fen Vision grazing experiment in Cambridgeshire is now available on our website. Follow the link above for our ‘new look’ to our LTE site pages, containing a mine of information for multiple audiences. The Wicken Fen experiment has now been running for 17 years under the guidance of Francine Hughes.
Read MoreThe summer edition of the BES quarterly magazine The Niche features our short article on the landscape-scale transformation dialogue that we have been engaged in with BES and other NGO partners over the past year. It references the approaching Resilient Landscapes symposium coming up in Birmingham on 24/25 June, for which the delegate registration deadline is Friday 7 June at 5pm.
Read MoreECT Company Number: 6652160, Charity Number: 1126122
This page last updated 25/3/25
Provides core funding to ect
