Join leading brands working with NatureMetrics to measure & monitor their nature impact
Affordable, high-integrity biodiversity monitoring
eDNA is the only solution that offers the accuracy of groundtruthing with the scaleabiltiy of remote sensing.
Quickly detect thousands of species, including animals, fungi, bacteria without time-consuming and invasive field surveys.
Inform on-farm management decisions
Biodiversity responds rapidly to changes in management.
Increase your understanding of sustainable farming practices through robust baselines, field comparisons and multi-year monitoring.
Track and compare multiple sites
Benchmarking biodiversity and tracking changes across multiple sites is easy with NatureMetrics.
Automatically convert raw data into 8 straightforward metrics that provide instant benefits to stakeholders at all levels, CSO to ecologist.
Get ahead of upcoming nature regulation
Mandatory nature-impact reporting is coming, including the CSRD, GBF and TNFD. Consumers are already shifting towards nature-positive companies.
Position yourself to meet consumer demand and disclosure obligations with high-integrity biodiversity data across your global supply chain.
Selected use cases for eDNA in agriculture
NatureMetrics helps agri-food organisations prepare for upcoming regulation, improve management decisions, and measure progress
Monitor and improve soil health
Soil biodiversity is an essential component to measure for healthy soil function.
Optimise on-farm management strategies
Quickly assess the effectiveness of new farming practices and inputs on soil, water and insect populations.
Track biodiversity performance across global supply chains
Easily compare biodiversity improvement over multiple sites with simple metrics anywhere in the world.
Add value to carbon credits
High-integrity carbon credits with biodiversity co-benefits sell for 4x more than average. eDNA enables carbon programmes to effectively measure aand communicate biodiversity uplift.
Prepare for upcoming legislation
Mandatory nature-impact disclosure is coming. Get ahead of upcoming reporting requirements with high-integrity biodiversity baselining and multi-year monitoring.
Increase the impact of nature-based solutions
Biodiversity is critical for nutrient cycling, carbon sequestration, air and water quality. We help you increase the effectiveness of these initiatives with new levels of insight.
Why eDNA is the gold standard for biodiversity monitoring in agriculture
eDNA outperforms traditional biodiversity monitoring techniques and remote sensing models against a range of criteria.
What is eDNA?
All living things leave traces of their DNA in the environment (eDNA). We use this to identify individual species from small samples of soil, sediment, water and air.
eDNA gives the most comprehensive view across the full spectrum of life – providing an unrivalled picture of a site’s biodiversity.
Standardised methods with global reach
Survey biodiversity across all habitats, geographies, and land uses.
Collect more data with fewer samples
Monitor hard-to-detect species across the whole ‘web of life’
Increased accessibility repeatability, scaleability
Anyone can take scientifically-rigorous eDNA samples with minimal training
Beyond data: Inform decision making with metrics
We’ve reduced the time and cost associated with raw data analysis. Explore a range of data-backed metrics designed to improve your decision making, reduce risk and increase efficiencies
The total number of species detected.
Why is Species Richness so important?
Increasing Species Richness can indicate more resources & habitats are available at your site, or has become better connected.
The number of species on the IUCN Red List classified as Vulnerable, Endangered or Critically Endangered.
Why is it important to highlight IUCN Threatened Species?
An increase in the number of threatened species is generally associated with a positive trend in biodiversity or habitat condition
The quantity of ecosystem functions bacteria communities can perform.
Why is bacterial functional diversity valuable?
Increasing Bacterial Functional Diversity implies the bacteria community can perform more ecological functions & respond to environmental changes.
The total number of invasive species detected in each sample or site.
Why are invasive species so important to highlight?
An increase in the number of invasive species is generally associated with a negative trend in biodiversity
The variety of species types that occur in a community.
Why is evolutionary diversity so important?
Increasing Evolutionary Diversity can indicate a reduction in pressures at your site and increasing resilience of the community.
The quantity of feeding strategies in a fungal community.
Why is fungal functional diversity valuable?
An increase in Fungal Functional Diversity implies more pathways for nutrient cycling to occur which can increase soil fertility.
The proportion of fish species considered vulnerable to human disturbance.
Why is this metric valuable?
An increase in the Prevalence of Sensitive Species implies that a fish community has more vulnerable species & suggests human pressures have been reduced.
The ratio of fungi to bacteria DNA in soil, providing an indication of soil health.
Why is this metric valuable?
An increase in Soil Fungal:Bacterial Ratio indicates progress towards healthier soils & good-quality stored carbon.
Environmental DNA (eDNA) is a powerful tool for providing biodiversity data, enabling better informed data driven decisions for our projects and our clients. Whether this be the use of eDNA to determine the presence of vertebrates, invertebrates or bacteria from water samples or the use of eDNA to track changes in soil and macroinvertebrate communities; the value of rapidly developing eDNA technology is mind blowing.
