Photo: Steve Bunk |
Dave Tinnin, field research associate in the University of New Mexico's biology department, takes blood samples and measurements of rodents caught on the research station grounds. |
From a cluster of adobe-style buildings crouched below a rocky plateau on the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, UNM staff manage their studies of a quarter-million-acre "biome transition zone" encompassing desert, prairie, plateau, and woodlands. All four of these ecosystems yield the research station's star resident: a beguiling little rodent with doelike eyes called Peromyscus...
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