I've read Braiding Sweetgrass, The Hidden Life of Trees, Cosmos, and am currently reading The Mind of the Raven. I have discovered that I really love reading about plants, animals, biology, ecosystems, etc. Awesome if it's infotaining, but I'm also cool with something others might find a bit dry.
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Light Eaters and Parasite Rex both sound up your alley.
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong
Reading the Forested Landscape, by Tom Wessels
On Trails, by Robert Moor
The Hour of Land, by Terry Tempest Williams (also anything else by TTW)
All beautifully written and fascinating.
*Desert Solitaire*, by Edward Abbey
1491 is about the pre-European contact peoples of North/South America but it had a huge ecosystem element. Specifically talked about how the native peoples of the Americas shaped the ecosystems over the millennia. I found it fascinating and one of the better non-fiction books I’ve read in the last few years.
Of Time and Turtles by Sy Montgomery
Wild Things, Wild Places by Jan Alexander
John Muir: Rediscovering America by Frederick Turner