Bushra Abu-Helil's research helps Norfolk poultry farmers
Bushra Abu-Helil is a PhD research student in zoology at the Quadram Institute on Norwich Research Park studying the microbiome of chickens.
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Bushra Abu-Helil is a PhD research student in zoology at the Quadram Institute on Norwich Research Park studying the microbiome of chickens.
Severe air pollution in Dushanbe will likely deteriorate further as Tajikistan develops more coal-fired power plants and factories
Credit: Photos: Julia Kemppinen and Peter C. le Roux. Researchers are in the search for generalisable rules and patterns in nature. Biogeographer Julia Kemppinen together with her colleagues tested if plant functional traits show similar patterns along microclimatic gradients across far-apart regions from the high-Arctic Svalbard to the sub-Antarctic Marion Island. Kemppinen and her colleagues found surprisingly identical patterns. It is widely known that global vegetation patterns and plant properties follow major differences in climate. Yet, it has remained a mystery how well the same rules...