Picture

Common Name

Latin Name

Nutrition Type

Niche

Rushes

Jungus

Producer:
Autotroph

Provides food for many

herbivores such as snowshoe
hare, deer and black bear.

Giant Sequoia
pine cones

Sequoiadendron
giganteum

Producer:
Autotroph

Provides shade (a canopy)

for the plants below, it
provides young cones with
green scales that get eaten
by Chickaree, also known as
Douglas Squirrels, provides
nutrition from its dead leaves
and rotting logs

Mule Deer

Odocoileus
hemionus

primary
consumer:
Heterotroph &
Herbivore

Like the snowshoe hare, it is

a prey that many predators
like the black bear and the
bobcat survive on. They feed
on the summer rushes, and
can often times be seen in
big grass meadows.

Juncus. Digital image.

Juncus - Wikipedia, the
Free Encyclopedia.
Wikipedia.org, n.d. Web.
23 Mar. 2015.

Reznick, Ron. Mariposa

Grove of Giant Sequoias.
Digital image. Mariposa
Grove of Giant Sequoias.
Digital-images.net, n.d.
Web. 23 Mar. 2015.

Mule Deer in Sequoia.

Digital image. Sequoia

National Park.
Messaih.edu, n.d. Web. 23
Mar. 2015.
Snowshoe Hare

Lepus
Americanus

primary
consumer:
Heterotroph &
Herbivore

It is a predator for many

different animals in the
surroundings such as the
american marten, the bobcat
and other carnivorous
animals. It eats rushes,
clovers, and dead pine
needles as a part of its main
diet.

Douglas Squirrel

Tamiasciurus
douglasii

primary
consumer:
Heterotroph &
Herbivore

They store and spread cones

with seeds, which could lead
to seeds sprouting into trees.
The squirrels eating the
cones and then pooping the
seeds back out also leads to
the spreading of the seeds.
Even if no tree grows from
the seeds they pooped out,
they are still spreading
nutrition for their
environment.

American Marten

Martes
Americana

secondary
consumer:
Heterotroph &
Carnivore

They eat douglas squirrels

and the snowshoe hare as
part of their meals, which
once they are eaten they are
used in the nutrient cycle and
put as dead animal
carcasses for other animals
to then eat (bacteria, etc.)

Niebrugge, Ron.
Snowshoe Hare. Digital
image. Snowshoe Hare
Photo.
Wildnatureimages.com,
n.d. Web. 23 Mar. 2015.

Douglassquirrel2. Digital
image. Douglas Squirrel Tamiasciurus Douglasii.
New Hampshire Public
Television, n.d. Web. 23
Mar. 2015.

Cute Pine Marten. Digital

image. Michegannature.
Wordpress, n.d. Web. 23
Mar. 2015.
Grey fox

Urocyon
cinereoargenteu
s

secondary
consumer:
Heterotroph &
carnivore

It provides balance in its

ecosystem since it is the
secondary consumer. Being
in the same level as the
American Marten, it eats the
squirrels, and snowshoe
hares.

Bobcat

Lynx rufus

tertiary
consumer:
Heterotroph &
Carnivore

Provide themselves as the

predators for martens,
snowshoe hares, and deer
that can be 2 or three times
the size of themselves. provide a balance in the food
chain

American Black
Bear

Ursus
Americanus

quatinary
consumer:
Heterotroph &
Omnivore

It is at the top of its food

chain since it is the largest
mammal and it is an
omnivore so it will eat rushes,
berries, as well as deer and
other leftover animal
carcasses. Provides a
balance in the food chain,
since it is an omnivore and it
is the biggest mammal in
Sequoia National Park

Gray Fox. Digital image.

Gray Fox - OVLC : OVLC.
Ovlc.org, n.d. Web. 23
Mar. 2015.

Bobcat. Digital image.

Nevada Department of
Wildlife. Ndow.org, n.d.
Web. 23 Mar. 2015.

Bear Crosses a Surging

River. Digital image. Black
Bear Biology - Sequoia &
Kings Canyon. Nps.gov,
n.d. Web. 23 Mar. 2015.

Long horned
wood-boring
beetle

Cerambycidae
(species name)

Detritivore

It eats dead wood from fallen

trees and by eating this wood
it helps decompose the wood
so that it can become a part
of the ground again. (think
nutrient cycle)

Brown-eyed
Parasol

Lepiota
Castaneidisca

Saprotroph

This is one of the most

common saprotrophs in the
sequoia forest, and plays a
major role in the health of the
environment. Not only does it
decompose all dead plant
matter such as dead leaves,
dead tree trunks, etc. but it
also gives nutrition so that
new plants can grow from the
decomposed matter.

Fowler, John. Asian longhorned wood boring beetle

Anoplophora glabripennis
(Starry sky beetle). Digital
image. Asian Long-horned
Beetle. Photoshelter, n.d.
Web. 23 Mar. 2015.

Flint, Leslie. Lepiota

Castaneidisca (Browneyed Parasol). Digital
image. Flickr, n.d. Web. 23
Mar. 2015.