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Chile's distant paradise where scientists study climate change

Far from the pollution that blights major urban and industrial centers, Navarino Island is a paradise that provides unique conditions to study global warming. "There is nowhere else like it," Ricardo Rozzi, director of the Cape Horn International Center for global change studies and bio-cultural conservation in Puerto Williams, told AFP.

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Another aspect is the elevational diversity gradient, an ecological pattern in which biodiversity changes with elevation. The 700-meter high Bandera hill's biodiversity changes every 200 meters and there is a mammoth 1.5 degrees Celsius difference in temperature between top and bottom.