Ecology Courses & Books

As of July 2026 I have retired and am no longer offering training courses or workshops.

You can still find plenty of resources here, relating to ecology, environmental science, and data analysis.

Our Books include data analysis, statistical hypothesis testing, predictive analysis, and data visualisation, as well as more specific topics in ecology, conservation and environmental science. Our Books cover general data science, using Excel and featuring R: The Statistical Programming Language. Our Books also feature ecology topics, such as Statistics for Ecologists and Community Ecology.

Environmental Ecology

Conservation Biology

Environmental Science

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Our books about Data Analytics for Ecology, Conservation & Environmental Science, include: Excel, Statistics, R Programming, Data Visualisation, Predictive Analysis, Community analysis, and Hypothesis testing. Web support includes downloads and online exercises and supplementary notes.

Our Books include Data Analytics, statistical hypothesis testing, predictive analysis, and data visualisation, as well as more specific topics in Ecology, Conservation, and Environmental Science.

Our Data Analytics Books cover general data analytics, using Excel as well as R: The Statistical Programming Language. Topics include:

  • Data Management.
  • R Programming.
  • Predictive Analysis.
  • Data Visualisation.

Our Ecology Books feature more specific ecology topics, such as Statistics for Ecologists and Community Ecology. Topics include:

  • Hypothesis Testing.
  • Statistical Analysis.
  • Data Visualisation.
  • Predictive Analysis.
  • Ecological Diversity.
  • Multivariate Analyses (Ordination).

The R program is featured widely in our books. R is a statistical programming environment and is a large Open Source project, widely used by Universities and Professionals.

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Custom R Functions

Resources for teachers and students Look at our resources page for examples of custom R functions. R: the statistical programming

Data Examples

Resources for teachers and students Look at our resources page for examples of data that can be used for ecology, conservation

Online Training and Workshops

All our data analytics training and data workshops are available online. Video conferencing software

New book on the way: Introduction to R

Training Courses & Ecology Workshops

We run Training Courses and Ecology Workshops for Individuals, Universities, NGOs and Government Agencies in the UK, and online. Our Training Courses in Data Analytics for Ecology, Conservation & Environmental Science can be tailored to produce bespoke training in ecological data analysis. Project Workshops in Data Analytics for Ecology & Conservation provide a Data-driven learning platform for data analytics and data visualisation.

Our Training Courses cover a range of topics including:

  • Basic Data Analysis, Statistics and Data Visualisation.
  • R Programming.
  • RMarkdown.
  • Data Mining.
  • Hypothesis Testing.
  • Data Visualisation.
  • Predictive Analysis.

Our Training Courses can be tailored to produce bespoke training, to best suit your requirements.

Ecological and Conservation data Project Workshops help improve your data interpretation and data analysis skills. Project Workshops are a data-driven approach to data analytics for Ecology, Conservation & Environmental Science. Ecology Workshops can feature general ecological data or focus on your own project data, giving you the skills you need for future projects.

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Data Analytics Consulting Services

Our Data Analytics Consulting Services can help you move your project forwards by helping with data analysis. Our Data Analytics Consulting Services can help you analyse, visualise and interpret your project data in Ecological Research or Conservation Biology.

Our Consulting Services can help with a range of topics, including:

  • Conservation Biology Project data analytics.
  • Ecological Research Project data analytics.
  • Ecological Diversity.
  • Beta Diversity.
  • Species and Environmental Habitat.
  • Multivariate and Community Analysis (Ordination).
  • Data Visualisation.
  • Predictive Analysis and Machine Learning.

Data Analytics Consulting Services would be useful for: Ecology Students, Researchers, NGOs, and Government Agencies.

Note: If you are an ecology student a project workshop may be more suitable, to give you the skills you need to conduct the analyses yourself. In any event you should ask your supervisor to contact us.

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About Gardeners Own

Mark is an ecologist, lecturer and author.
GardenersOwn.co.uk was founded by Dr Mark Gardener. Mark is an ecologist and scientist who specialises in data analysis. Mark is author of several books on ecology, and data science, especially the programming language R.

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