How environmental DNA turned river water into a global wildlife census

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM 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 […] The post How environmental DNA turned river water into a global wildlife census first appeared on The Optimist Daily: Making Solutions the News.