712 square kilometers (275 square miles) of gypsum dunes. Situated in the centre of the Tularosa Basin, shouldered between the San Andres and Sacramento Mountains in southern New Mexico, USA.
The setting is White Sands, NM - an island of gypsum dunes slowly transforming and shifting through the Chihuahuan Desert. The protagonists are three species of small white lizards inhabiting these dunes. The story is recent and rapid evolution: changing ecology, natural selection, and speciation. Our attempt, as field biologists, is to tell that story. - by Simone Des Roches
15 April 2011
The Setting: White Sands, New Mexico
712 square kilometers (275 square miles) of gypsum dunes. Situated in the centre of the Tularosa Basin, shouldered between the San Andres and Sacramento Mountains in southern New Mexico, USA.
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