WILDLIFE DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
WILDLIFE SPECIES: Peromyscus maniculatus | Deer Mouse 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Deer mice occur throughout most of North America and are abundant in
most areas.  Deer mouse is the most widely distributed Peromyscus
species [51].  Deer mice are distributed 
from Quebec and New Brunswick
west to Yukon Territory and southeast Alaska; south to Baja California
and through the Sierra Madre to southern Mexico; south in central Texas
to the Gulf of Mexico; and south in the Appalachian Mountains to
northern Georgia [57,127].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
FRES10 White-red-jack pine
FRES11 Spruce-fir
FRES12 Longleaf-slash pine
FRES13 Loblolly-shortleaf pine
FRES14 Oak-pine
FRES15 Oak-hickory
FRES17 Elm-ash-cottonwood
FRES18 Maple-beech-birch
FRES19 Aspen-birch
FRES20 Douglas-fir
FRES21 Ponderosa pine
FRES22 Western white pine
FRES23 Fir-spruce
FRES24 Hemlock-Sitka spruce
FRES25 Larch
FRES26 Lodgepole pine
FRES27 Redwood
FRES28 Western hardwoods
FRES29 Sagebrush
FRES30 Desert shrub
FRES31 Shinnery
FRES32 Texas savanna
FRES33 Southwestern shrubsteppe
FRES34 Chaparral-mountain shrub
FRES35 Pinyon-juniper
FRES36 Mountain grasslands
FRES37 Mountain meadows
FRES38 Plains grasslands
FRES39 Prairie
FRES40 Desert grasslands
FRES41 Wet grasslands
FRES42 Annual grasslands
FRES44 Alpine


STATES : 


    
AK
    
AR
    
CA
    
CO
    
CT
    
DE
    
GA
    
ID
    
IL
    
IN


    
IA
    
KS
    
KY
    
ME
    
MD
    
MA
    
MI
    
MN
    
MO
    
MT


    
NE
    
NV
    
NH
    
NJ
    
NM
    
NY
    
ND
    
OH
    
OK
    
OR


    
PA
    
RI
    
SD
    
TN
    
TX
    
UT
    
VT
    
WA
    
WV
    
WI


    
WY
    
DC






    
AB
    
BC
    
MB
    
NB
    
NF
    
NT
    
NS
    
ON
    
PQ
    
SK
    
YT






    
MEXICO
    




BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    1  Northern Pacific Border
    2  Cascade Mountains
    3  Southern Pacific Border
    4  Sierra Mountains
    5  Columbia Plateau
    6  Upper Basin and Range
    7  Lower Basin and Range
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains
    9  Middle Rocky Mountains
   10  Wyoming Basin
   11  Southern Rocky Mountains
   12  Colorado Plateau
   13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont
   14  Great Plains
   15  Black Hills Uplift
   16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   Deer mice occur in nearly all Kuchler types except those
   in the extreme southeastern United States.


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   Deer mice occur in nearly all SAF cover types except those
   in the extreme southeastern United States


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
   Ceer mice occur in nearly all SRM cover types except those 
   in the extreme southeastern United States.


PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Deer mice are nearly ubiquitous in North America [57]; they inhabit a
wide variety of plant communities including grasslands, brushy areas,
woodlands, and forests [127].  In a survey of small mammals on 29 sites
in subalpine forests in Colorado and Wyoming, the deer mouse had the
highest frequency of occurrence; however, it was not always the most
abundant small mammal [95].  Deer mice were trapped in four of six
forest communities in eastern Washington and northern Idaho, and they
were the only rodent in ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) savanna [55].
In northern New England deer mice are present in both coniferous and
deciduous forests [29].  Deer mice are often the only Peromyscus species
in northern boreal forest [3].  Subspecies differ in their use of plant
communities and vegetation structures.  There are two main groups of
deer mouse:  the prairie deer mouse and the woodland or forest deer mouse
group (typified by P. m. gracilis but consisting of many subspecies)
[127].

In the following states, deer mice were listed in the specified
vegetative community as the most common or most frequent rodent or small
mammal:

Oregon:  Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) [25]
eastern Washington/northern Idaho:  big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata),
   grasslands (2 types), coniferous forest (4 types) [131]
eastern Washington:  cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum)-dominated grasslands [92]
southeastern Idaho:  big sagebrush [97], big sagebrush/crested
  wheatgrass (Agropyron cristatum) [67], Russian-thistle (Salsola kali),
  crested wheatgrass, and fenceline [48]
Nevada:  pinyon (Pinus spp.)-juniper (Juniperus spp.) [80], big 
   sagebrush-antelope bitterbrush (Purshia tridentata), and
   curlleaf mountain-mahogany (Cercocarpus ledifolius) [87]
Utah:  pinyon-juniper [4]
southeastern Montana:  buffalograss (Buchloe dactyloides), snowberry
   (Symphoricarpos spp.)-dominated riparian areas, big sagebrush,
   and ponderosa pine [76]
Wyoming:  lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) [132]
Colorado:  pinyon-juniper [36]
Southwest:  ponderosa pine [22]
Arizona:  ponderosa pine [46]
West Virginia:  red spruce (Picea rubens) and red spruce-northern 
   hardwoods [66]


REFERENCES : 
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Related categories for Wildlife Species: Peromyscus maniculatus | Deer Mouse