Joe Roman, Conservation Biologist and author of Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World

Joe Roman is a conservation biologist, marine ecologist, and editor \’n\’ chef of eattheinvaders.org. Winner of the 2012 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award for Listed, Roman has written for the New York Times, Science, Slate, and other publications. He lives in Richmond, VT.

If forests are the lungs of the planet, then animals migrating across oceans, streams, and mountains–eating, pooping, and dying along the way–are its heart and arteries, pumping nitrogen and phosphorus from deep-sea gorges up to mountain peaks, from the Arctic to the Caribbean. Without this conveyor belt of crucial, life-sustaining nutrients, the world would look very different.

From the volcanoes of Iceland to the tropical waters of Hawaii, the great plains of the American heartland, and beyond, Eat, Poop, Die, \”compulsively readable\” (Shelby Van Pelt), takes readers on an exhilarating and enlightening global adventure, revealing the remarkable ways in which the most basic biological activities of animals make and remake the world–and how a deeper understanding of these cycles provides us with opportunities to undo the environmental damage humanity has wrought on the planet we call home.