Abstract
This study was designed to monitor some of the demographic responses of a deer mouse population to a forest application of Roundup® herbicide. Populations of Peromyscus maniculatus were livetrapped from July 1978 to November 1980 on a control area and in a herbicide-treated 20-year-old Douglas-fir plantation at Maple Ridge, British Columbia. The herbicide had no apparent adverse effects on reproduction, growth, or survival of deer mice 1 year after treatment. Inconsistencies in growth rates and juvenile survival between control and experimental deer mice in 1980 could be due to the herbicide or demographic factors. Field dose applications of this herbicide should not have a direct effect on the dynamics of deer mouse populations.
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