How environmental DNA turned river water into a global wildlife census
There’s something almost absurd about how we’ve always measured wildlife. Two trained ecologists visit the same river, spend days cataloguing what they can see, and come back with completely different species lists. Neither is wrong. The data just can’t be compared, which means it can’t really be used. “If you and I went to the same river, we would not produce the same species list,” says Dimple Patel, CEO of NatureMetrics. “This makes it very difficult to bring together data sets that people ar
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