Species Profile

Species Name: Great spotted Trophic Level: Primary and

woodpecker secondary consumer.
Forest areas.
Range

Population Size Medium

Sexual
Describe any mating ritual: Drumming is used by both sexes. Eggs
Reproduction are laid in May.
Number of Offspring:5-7
Parental Care: 10 days

What it eats (energy source): Brown beetles and seeds.

Nutrition
What eats it: The Gray wolf

Sensitivity none
To Pollution

Known value Eats insects including the pests.

Or use to
Humans

Surface Terrestrial

Relationships It has a mutualistic relationship with the white oak. The tree
with other provides it food and the woodpecker spreads seeds around
species the area.
 Environmental Impact Statement

Environmental Change: A very rainy summer had led to an increase in

the oomycete or better-known water mold. The water molds cause sudden
oak death. As there is more contact in between the trees in the forest, the
water mold spreads fast. It destroys a very big number of individual trees.

Extinct At this point none

The white-tailed deer. It has lost a big amount of its habitat

and its main source of food.
Endangered The gray wolf would also become endangered as the white-
tailed deer number would go down. It would lose its
primary source of food.
The wood pecker would become endangered because it
would lose its habitat, its spot for laying eggs and both
sources of its food would decline.
The water mold has destroyed a large number of
individuals, but as the white oak population was very large,
Threatened there are still many individuals to sustain the population.
The brown beetle would become threatened because they
would lose their primary habitat. Thy would have larger
amounts of food but they would lose their spot for laying
eggs which would decrease their number over time.
All the species are affected by this change in the system
No Change

The moist environment as well as the big number of fallen

oaks would increase the number of Wood fungi in the
Increased system
 It is highly possible that the white tailed dee would migrate
in a different system, where it would find enough food.
Mitigation The Great spotted woodpecker would also migrate because
there would be no habitat, nor food for it.

As the rain caused increase in the water mold we could say

Prevention/ that it was the climate change that caused the disaster.
Planning Humans could work on preventing climate change in many
for ways. For example, they could invest in renewable energy.
Disaster

One of the things that are often done when sudden oak
death appears is to set a controlled fire in order to kill the
Clean-up pathogen and prevent it from spreading onto the parts of
the forest.