Botanist Course
This course provides hands-on training in botanical surveying and conservation for temperate ecosystems, covering survey design, field techniques, species identification, data management, and monitoring.

flexible workload from 4 to 360h
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
The Botanist Course equips you with practical skills to design and conduct a full 50-hectare plant survey, starting from setting conservation objectives and research questions to creating strong sampling plans. You will master standard field techniques, species identification and voucher procedures, data handling, and monitoring approaches for rare, native, and invasive plants in temperate river-forest-grassland areas.
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Develop skills
- Habitat-based plant ID: quickly recognise native, invasive, and rare species.
- Vegetation sampling: apply transects, quadrats, and plots to measure plant cover.
- Field survey design: plan stratified sampling for river, forest, and grassland.
- Botanical data management: build clean field sheets, databases, and GPS records.
- Conservation monitoring: detect threat levels and report species of concern clearly.
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