AN RESPONSE OF ORGANISMS TO INCREASE IN EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS Global climate has increased by approximately 0.6°C over the last 100 years (Walther et al . 2002). This increased rate of change is largely due to humans: the industrial revolution, the advancement of technology and the use of fossil fuels (Timmermann et al. 1999). This human involvement has gradually changed the natural order of the environment and many of its processes. Some of these environmental conditions are not easily predictable, as these climate changes are also increasing more extreme weather events such as: savanna droughts, flooding in low-lying areas, and an increase in the intensity of cyclonic events (Knutson et al. 2010). Human interactions with tropical forests in particular are influencing the nature of these forests. Many tropical forests mitigate warming through evaporative cooling, which is the idea of ​​a stable ecosystem. Large-scale conversion of forests to grasslands creates a hotter and drier climate (Bonan 2008). Deforestation for crops or roads is creating marginal effects in forests. Some of these tropical areas around the world will also receive increased precipitation in many parts of the tropics (Legates et al. 1990). With this additional precipitation and higher average temperatures, some tropical rainforests would show increased forest cover. Allowing greater growth or alteration of biodiversity and tropical levels within these stable tropical environments (Petchey et al. 1999). With this rapid evolutionary increase in temperature many organisms must alter their responses faster than previously necessary. React to rapid or slow changes depending on environmental conditions, for example by using behavioral thermoregulation… middle of paper… while the remaining forest serves as a refuge area for surviving species (Haffer 1969). Especially on the land surrounding the equator between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer, also known as the tropics (Pidwirny 2006). More recently scientists have predicted a global increase in temperatures because tropical ecosystems are sensitive to small changes in temperature, species distributions are likely to shrink, not allowing enough time for the species to respond (Townsend et al. 1992 & Williams et al. 2003). With climate change the tropics are experiencing greater unpredictability with future rainfall and tropical cyclones (Henderson-Sellers et al. 1998 & Hughes 2003). Tropical cyclones were modeled with increasing temperatures; it was found that the intensity of cyclones will increase but the uncertainty in the frequency of events (Knutson et al. 2010).