This space is maintained by the Core Project Biodiversity Synthesis of the Biodiversity Exploratories. Here we share news, manuals, code and teaching material. In oder to help you navigate around our page, here is a little overview about the content we provide. Follow the links below or just browse our Repositories and their Readme files.

If you are new to GitHub : Welcome! Repositories are like folders, each of them contains a file called "Readme" in which the content of the current folder is described.

• The Synthesis dataset manual helps you to work with the Synthesis datasets. It provides information and tips on how to handle the datasets and outlines common issues when analysing these datasets.

• All code to create synthesis datasets is in their respective folders: grassland diversity, grassland functions, forest diversity
• In useful functions you can find a collection of functions that we often use ourselves and that could be useful for you too, when working with Biodiversity Exploratories datasets.

Teaching material is in the courses workshops folder.

Here are some short tutorials about selected topics, similar to a FAQ section. Currently published and partly still in development. Don't hesitate to request a tutorial from us, or contact us directly with your R and statistics questions!

Keep an eye as well on The R Buddy Club: Where we and our Institute's colleagues from the Plant Ecology (Prof. Markus Fischer) and Community Ecology (Prof. Eric Allan) Groups write tutorials about R-related topics for our Institute's R club.

• current list of synthesis proposals (you need to be logged in to BExIS). Please remember, that a Proposal including Data from 3 or more projects is a synthesis project, and needs a respective proposal. Further information about synthesis proposal writing can be found in the current Rules of Procedure (requires you to be logged in to BExIS).

We welcome any contribution! If you want to contribute code (e.g. useful functions), want to report an error or make a suggestion, please do not hesitate to contact us by email, make a pull request via Github or open a Github issue in the repository of interest.