Live Online course: Species occurrence data download and cleaning with R
Soledad De Esteban Trivigno
Dear colleagues,
2 slots are available for the 2-day course “Species occurrence data download and cleaning with R”.
Dates and schedule: Online live sessions October 27th and 29th, 2025.
The course will be highly interactive and will include both theoretical and practical sessions. Participants are encouraged to work with their own species of interest, although several illustrative examples will also be provided.
Course webpage: https://www.transmittingscience.com/courses/ecology/species-occurrence-data-download-and-cleaning-with-r/
In this short course, we will use a range of tools to
1) Import species occurrence data from various sources into R (e.g. GBIF, iNaturalist, VertNet, EcoEngine, national / regional / continental atlases)
2) Join and arrange these data into a homogeneous dataset for analysis
3) Map and visually inspect the data for taxonomic and spatial errors and bias
4) Clean the data from detectable errors, using both non-automatic and automatic tools (e.g. ‘scrubr’, ‘CoordinateCleaner’)
5) Correct or minimize spatial biases with different tools (e.g. ‘spThin’, ‘humboldt.occ.rarefy’, ‘gridRecords’).
Best wishes
Sole