About

Tidy Ecology is a collection of R and QGIS workflows for working with biodiversity data, written for the people who actually have to run the analysis.

A lot of ecological work falls into an awkward gap. It’s too specialised for general data-science tutorials, but too code-heavy for most ecology courses. The aim here is to fill that gap with reproducible workflows: getting field and occurrence data in, cleaning it, and taking it through to diversity indices, ordination, and species distribution models. There are spatial recipes in QGIS for rasters and protected-area layers, notes on where biodiversity data actually comes from (GBIF, iNaturalist and the like), and a fair amount of honesty about the parts that tend to break.

It’s aimed at field biologists, ecology students, and conservation practitioners who want to do more of their own analysis without turning into full-time programmers. If you can already run a script but tend to freeze when something throws an error, the tutorials here are for you.

Spotted a mistake, or want a topic covered? The contact page is the place.