such as an EI Nino oceanic upwelling, outbreaks of polar air masses, and violent windstorms. Such tropical disturbances can be changed dramatically by slight____in temperature and___.Under global warming, the number and intensity of hurricanes or wildfires might increase or decrease in a given location. Yhese sort of changes could deeply affecf biodiversity because patterns of disturbance seem to be a primary contributor to high species diversity in the tropics