"Reveals how ecosystems are sculpted and sustained by animals eating, pooping, and dying--and how these fundamental functions could help save us from climate catastrophe."--Dust jacket

Little, Brown Spark is an imprint of Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc.

Beginnings -- Deep doo-doo -- Eat, spawn, die -- Heartland -- Chicken planet -- Everybody poops--and dies -- Beach read -- The singing tree -- Cloudy with a chance of midges -- The otter and the H-bomb.