Slides for a 60 min presentation on basic aspects of research data management. The first part discusses motivations and solutions for improved research data management specific for ecological and biodiversity data. The second part gives an overview of simple, hands-on improvements of research data management along the data life cycle. Many of the discipline specific tools and services presented in the talk are provided by the NFDI4Biodiversity consortium. Included is also an overview of generic tools and services provided by the local eResearch Center of the Philipps University of Marburg in close collaboration with the Hessian Research Data Infrastructures (HeFDI).