Joe Roman is a conservation biologist, academic, and author of the books Whale and Listed: Dispatches from America’s Endangered Species Act. His conservation research includes studies of the historical population size of whales, the role of cetaceans in the nitrogen cycle, the relationship between biodiversity and disease, and the genetics of invasions. He is the founding editor of “Eat the Invaders”, a website dedicated to controlling invasive species by eating them.
Booksin order of publication:
Whale (2006, Reaktion Books)
Listed: Dispatches from America’s Endangered Species Act – 2011
Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World (2023, Little, Brown Spark)
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