US/IBP SYNTHESIS SERIES 



This volume is a contribution to the International Biological Program. The United 

 States effort was sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences through the National 

 Committee for the IBP. The lead federal agency in providing support for IBP has been 

 the National Science Foundation. 



Views expressed in this volume do not necessarily represent those of the National 

 Academy of Sciences or the National Science Foundation. 



Volume 



1 MAN IN THE ANDES: A Multidisciplinary Study of High-AUitude Quechua / 



Paul T. Baker and Michael A. Little 



2 CHILE-CALIFORNIA MEDITERRANEAN SCRUB ATLAS: A Comparative 



Analysis / Norman J. W. Thrower and David E. Bradbury 



3 CONVERGENT EVOLUTION IN WARM DESERTS: An Examination of 



Strategies and Patterns in Deserts of Argentina and the United States / 

 Gordon H. Orians and Otto T. Solbrig 



4 MESQUITE: Its Biology in Two Desert Scrub Ecosystems / B. B. Simpson 



5 CONVERGENT EVOLUTION IN CHILE AND CALIFORNIA: Mediterranean 



Climate Ecosystems / Harold A. Mooney 



6 CREOSOTE BUSH: Biology and Chemistry of Larrea in New World Deserts / 



T. J. Mabry, J. H. Hunziker. and D. R. DiFeo. Jr. 



7 BIG BIOLOGY: The US/ IBP/ W. Frank Blair 



8 ESKIMOS OF NORTHWESTERN ALASKA: A Biological Perspective/ Paul L. 



Jamison, Stephen L. Zegura, and Frederick A. Milan 



9 NITROGEN IN DESERT ECOSYSTEMS / N. E. West and John Skujins 



10 AEROBIOLOGY: The Ecological Systems Approach / Robert L. Edmonds 



11 WATER IN DESERT ECOSYSTEMS / Daniel D. Evans and John L. Thames 



12 AN ARCTIC ECOSYSTEM: The Coastal Tundra at Barrow, Alaska / Jerry 



Brown, Philip C. Miller, Larry L. Tieszen, and Fred L. Bunnell 



13 LIMNOLOGY OF TUNDRA PONDS: Barrow Alaska / John E. Hobbie 



14 ANALYSIS OF CONIFEROUS FOREST ECOSYSTEMS IN THE WESTERN 



UNITED STATES / Robert L. Edmonds 



15 ISLAND ECOSYSTEMS: Biological Organization in Selected Hawaiian 



Communities / Dieter Mueller- Dombois, Kent W. Bridges, and Hampton L. 

 Carson 



