Ecological Continuity Trust

Ecological Continuity Trust A small charity dedicated to preserving long-term experiments (LTEs) for policymaking, sustainable land use & education

Early bird registration for the Resilient Landscapes and Seas Symposium 2027 is now open! ...
03/09/2026

Early bird registration for the Resilient Landscapes and Seas Symposium 2027 is now open!

This RLAS Symposium 2027: Designing Landscape Projects for Impact is taking place in Manchester next year aims to build a more cohesive community in landscape transformation, share knowledge and best practice, and to connect and provide mutual support to landscape-scale projects across the UK.

Featuring keynote and session speakers across six themes (Landscape and Sea projects: Challenges and Success stories, Designing evaluation approaches for outcome and impacts, How to monitor & measure, How to implement and use data, Telling stories with impact, Inspiring Impact Stories from Landscape and Seas) this symposium will bring together leading organisations and stakeholders interested in large-scale land, freshwater, coastal and marine transformation.

Book your early bird ticket now https://bit.ly/RLASReg

RainDrop is the LTE Site Of The Week.Habitat: Grassland Experiment type: Climate changeExperiment goal: To see how calca...
02/09/2026

RainDrop is the LTE Site Of The Week.

Habitat: Grassland

Experiment type: Climate change

Experiment goal: To see how calcareous grassland responds to drought.

PI: Andy Hector, University of Oxford

Running since: 2016

Located: England

This is an experiment that was set up by the ECT in collaboration with the The Open University and the University of Oxford.

Learn more about the site: https://www.ecologicalcontinuitytrust.org/raindrop

We are now issuing our call for submissions for the second Resilient Landscapes and Seas Partnership symposium. This sym...
01/09/2026

We are now issuing our call for submissions for the second Resilient Landscapes and Seas Partnership symposium.

This symposium is taking place in Manchester for two days in February 2027, and the symposium's focus will be on the design of evaluation programmes for outcomes and impact.

For more information and to submit, see https://bit.ly/488EYcd

Pound Hill is the LTE Site Of The Week. Habitat: Grassland Experiment type: RestorationExperiment goal: To see how the t...
26/08/2026

Pound Hill is the LTE Site Of The Week.

Habitat: Grassland

Experiment type: Restoration

Experiment goal: To see how the timing of soil disturbance affects the plants community composition and biomass.

PI: Mick Crawley at Imperial College London

Running since: 1992

Located: England

Whether plants are added to a population depends on their optimal germination, which is affected by soil disturbance.

Learn more about this site: https://www.ecologicalcontinuitytrust.org/poundhill

Next Thursday lunchtime, the ECT has organised with the British Society of Soil Science the Zoom into Soil Webinar: Usin...
21/08/2026

Next Thursday lunchtime, the ECT has organised with the British Society of Soil Science the Zoom into Soil Webinar: Using Long-term Experiments.

They will be joined by John Quinton from Lancaster University, and Robin Walker from SRUC who will discuss how soil scientists can use long-term ecological experiments.

Register to attend: https://tinyurl.com/mrfmjpja

Plylimon Catchments is the LTE Site Of The Week.Habitat: Freshwater Experiment type: GrazingExperiment goal: To compare ...
19/08/2026

Plylimon Catchments is the LTE Site Of The Week.

Habitat: Freshwater

Experiment type: Grazing

Experiment goal: To compare how the use of forested and moorland sites affects the water catchments.

PI: Jade Hall, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - UKCEH

Running since: 1967

Located: Wales

Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru / Natural Resources Wales
Natural Environment Research Council
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)

Learn more about this experiment: https://www.ecologicalcontinuitytrust.org/plynlimon-research-catchments

ECT’s Webinar Series is open to all! Our lunchtime webinar is this Friday. Tim King from University of Oxford will be sp...
17/08/2026

ECT’s Webinar Series is open to all!

Our lunchtime webinar is this Friday. Tim King from University of Oxford will be speaking about the Aston Rowant long-term experiment (LTE) in England.

The goal at this LTE is to look at how management practices affect scrub diversity So do join us, if management and biodiversity is of interest to you!

Every two months we host our webinar series that takes place on Friday lunchtimes where researchers behind the long-term experiments and our partners deliver their talk.

These webinars take place on Webex, are open to all, and there is a chance for Q&As at the end. We hope to see you there!

To register for this webinar, see https://bit.ly/ECTWebinarsEvents

Palace Leas is the LTE Site Of The Week.Habitat: GrasslandExperiment type: GrazingExperiment goal: To understand how gra...
12/08/2026

Palace Leas is the LTE Site Of The Week.

Habitat: Grassland

Experiment type: Grazing

Experiment goal: To understand how grazing and hay cutting affects grassland.

PI: Darren Evans, Newcastle University

Running since: 1896

Located: England

This is the longest grazing and fertiliser experiment ever.

Learn more about this experiment: https://www.ecologicalcontinuitytrust.org/palace-leas

We are jumping on a trend here, but we are also not(!) because we did actually produce a short documentary with Content ...
11/08/2026

We are jumping on a trend here, but we are also not(!) because we did actually produce a short documentary with Content With Purpose.

And here is the link if you want to watch the documentary: https://bit.ly/ECTLongView

Our 2025 charity annual report has now been published. It includes our financial statements, and our achievements for th...
10/08/2026

Our 2025 charity annual report has now been published.

It includes our financial statements, and our achievements for the year which includes:

• Attending Groundswell for the first time, taking our ‍message about the importance of long-term experiments (LTEs) in evidence-based policymaking to a new audience of agriculturalists.

• The production of two more VR headset tours of LTEs (Llyn Brianne and Glen Finglas).

• Being instrumental in achieving leadership and research team succession at two LTEs: ‍Wicken Fen and Lady Park Wood.

• Producing, in partnership with the British Society of Soil Science, a podcast at the ‍Colt Park LTE.

Read our annual report: https://tinyurl.com/ECTReport2025

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