Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World Roman Joe
Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World Roman Joe Conservation biologist Joe Roman reveals how ecosystems are sculpted and sustained by animals eating, pooping, and dying -- and how these…
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Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World Roman Joe
Conservation biologist Joe Roman reveals how ecosystems are sculpted and sustained by animals eating, pooping, and dying -- and how these fundamental biological functions could help save us from climate catastrophe.If forests are the lungs of the planet, then animals restlessly 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. The ecological and evolutionary consequences of competition and predation have been known Without this conveyor belt of crucial, life-sustaining nutrients, the world would look very different.The dynamics that shape our physical world -- atmospheric chemistry, geothermal forces, plate tectonics, and erosion through wind and rain -- have been explored for decades.