This course applies statistical models and concepts to analyze biodiversity data (including animals, plants, marine organisms, micro-organisms and DNA sequences). Biodiversity has at least three dimensions: (i) Species (or taxonomic) diversity: a quantity that measures the number of species in an assemblage and the evenness of its species abundance distribution. (ii) Phylogenetic diversity: a quantity that incorporates not only species abundances but also evolutionary histories/distances between species. (iii) Functional (or trait) diversity: a quantity that measures the value and range of species’ traits that influence ecosystem functioning among coexisting species in an assemblage. (iv) Introduction of spatial data, their visualization, and models commonly used in spatial prediction.