Biodiversity experiments

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Coral reefs are likely to undergo annual bleaching and eventually experience severe damage if the average global temperature increases more than 1 degree Celsius. Coral reefs are home to some of the ocean s richest biodiversity. 

Overall, the experience following the CBD has been positive because biodiversity has been protected through the improvement of scientific knowledge. It also provided the impetus for an ICBG programme to be developed and the research has led to the identification of protected areas. 

To this point we have looked to the past to understand the changing relations between biodiversity and biogeochemisry. Recently, there has been considerable research into the role of species richness in ecosystem functioning, including biogeochemistry. There have been explicit experiments on this issue as well as observations on the impact of addition and deletion of species on natural eco.systems. 

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