Habitat and biodiversity teams use QField to map:

• Habitat type and condition as polygons
• Species observations with location, count, and photos
• Deadwood, veteran trees, and microhabitat features
• Audio recordings for acoustic species such as birds and amphibians
• Repeat survey points for monitoring over time

Built for sensitive data

Biodiversity data is often sensitive. The precise location of a protected species is exactly the information that needs to be handled with care. With QField the data lives in your own QGIS project and your own QFieldCloud account, or on a server you host yourself. QField and QFieldCloud are open source and self-hostable, so you decide what is captured, who can see it, and what is ever shared beyond your team.

One workflow with QGIS and QFieldCloud

Prepare the survey project in QGIS , push it to every device through QFieldCloud , and sync at the end of each day. Surveyors work offline for as long as they are in the field, and conflict-safe merges keep a whole team working the same area without losing records.

Biodiversity and habitat mapping with QField

• Monitoring fire salamanders in Saxony , a conservation project using QField to track a protected amphibian
• Mapping breeding birds in the Wadden Sea , with Schutzstation Wattenmeer
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Looking for the broader picture? See QField for forestry and silviculture → .