Make up assignment – First field trip
Please complete both parts 1 and 2 below, and turn in either via email to Clara Buchholtz (Clara@bidwellpark.org ) or as a hard copy:
1. Choose 5 of the species (listed below) commonly found at the Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve and our region generally, and create an interactions web. To do this, list the species on a piece of paper (it may help to spread the names out in a circle on the paper). Start with one species, and identify a second species (one of the other species in your chosen 5) it is interdependent with (e.g. a species it eats, a species it is eaten by, a species it relies on for shelter or nutrients, etc). Briefly describe this interaction in a sentence or two. Then repeat this step starting from that second species, and continue until each species is connected to the web. (The final product is essentially a food web, modified to also include other types of ecological interactions such as shelter, and so forth.)
2. Please do a short write-up (~ 2 paragraphs) on one of the following topics:
Species list for part 1:
1. Sierra newt – Taricha sierra
2. Deer Grass – Muhlenbergia rigens
3. Manzanita Leaf Gall Aphid – Tamalia coweni
4. Valley Garter Snake – Thamnophis sirtalis fitchi
5. Pipevine Swallowtail – Battus philenor
6. Rainbow trout – Oncorhynchus mykiss
7. White alder – Alnus rhombifolia
8. Western sycamore – Platanus racemosa
9. Grey pine – Pinus sabiniana
10. Valley Oak – Quercus lobata
11. Canyon live oak – Quercus chrysolepis
12. Mountain Lion – Felis concolor
13. Black Bear – Ursus americanus
14. Mountain beaver – Aplodontia rufa
15. Western gray squirrel – Sciurus griseus
16. Black-tailed deer – Odocoileus hemionus columbianus
17. Deer mouse – Peromyscus maniculatus
18. Manzanita – Arctostaphylos manzanita
19. California Bay – Umbellularia californica
20. Poison-oak – Toxicodendron diversilobum
21. California pipevine – Aristolochia californica
22. Blue dicks – Dichelostemma capitatum
23. Western buttercup – Ranunculus occidentalis
24. Sierra Gooseberry – Ribes roezlii
25. Purple needlegrass – Stipa pulchra
26. Bicolored lupine – Lupinus bicolor
27. Ponderosa pine – Pinus ponderosa
28. Common collybia – Collybia dryophila
29. Buckbrush – Ceanothus cuneatus
30. Western redbud – Cercis occidentalis
31. Nitrogen-fixing bacteria – Frankia sp.
32. Mychorrizae – (many species)