SEFARI Fellowship to produce a strategic route map for optimising the potential uses of environmental DNA and other biomolecules to efficiently monitor, and better understand, Scotland’s natural environment

Report prepared by SEFARI Fellows David Cooke and Eulyn Pagaling 
The James Hutton Institute

Environmental DNA (eDNA) and other biomolecules offer Scotland the ability to assess biodiversity (through species detection) and environmental condition more efficiently and comprehensively than many traditional survey methods. Uptake across the UK, EU, and wider international community is accelerating, and Scotland should capitalise on this to advance the effective implementation of these methods for a range of applications. 

Case Study: eDNA: A Smarter Way to Track Scotland’s Environment | SEFARI