FunDive: Monitoring and mapping fungal diversity for nature cons
- 🍄New publication! Our FunDive paper on mycological societies in Europe, a collaborative effort involving 44 authors from 29 countries, is now published in Biodiversity and Conservation. Many thanks to all co-authors, reviewers & editors! 🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s105... 📝Surveys fun-dive.eu/en/dissemina...
- We wish you a joyful holiday season! May your New Year flourish with abundance, resilience, and good connections, like a healthy mycelium beneath the forest floor🍄🎄🍄🟫🌲 Photo/baking of Geastrum sp.: Julia Pawlowska
- 🎅Santa’s not the only one hunting for rare things this December 🍄 Meet the FunDive Advent Calendar! 🎁 24 species: open one every day before Dec 24th ⏱️ 30 seconds to learn 🔍 1 mission - help us find fungi that are harder to track than Santa’s sleigh 🔗 fun-dive.eu/.../dissemin... By Mateusz Pawlowski
- "Our task is to find these six invasive fungi”, says Eyes on Alien Mushrooms coordinator Susana C. Gonçalves. 👇Read more on Wilder wilder.pt/.../estamos-.... Photo: jczamorajpg/iNaturalist
- 📄A new paper by Louis Mielke and colleagues, published in Field Mycology, explains FunDive's goals and sums up its first results. 🔗Read more about connecting citizen science, eDNA and type specimens of fungi: doi.org/10.63482/php... open access
- 🔍🔑Keys on the website! You can find expert-level identification keys for several FunDive targets on our website. Prepared by Jens Petersen, the keys come from the book "Fungi of Temperate Europe: Keys to the Basidiomycotes" (Læssøe T., Petersen J., Frøslev T., Heilmann-Clausen J., expected in 2026)
- Great news from our Workpackage 4 - Sampling fungal communities!😎🌲🍄 Last week, #FunDive sent about 2500 environmental DNA samples for sequencing. We will investigate fungal diversity in European pine forests using different methods. #Biodiversa
- 🍄Mission: Urban mushrooms started in Bologna🍄 🔍🏡The mycology research group from the Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences at the University of Bologna (Italy) began mushroom sampling in three urban areas: near the Botanic Garden of Bologna, the Montagnola Park, and the Margherita Gardens.
- 1/3 🍄🧬Genetic mushrooming Who says mushrooming only happens in forests? With FunDive & Copernicus Science Centre collab, students and Centre visitors step into the modern lab and isolate DNA from fungi collected for FunDive. Results are visible here 👉https://fun-dive.eu/en/dataportal/ #Biodiversa
- 🍄🎉 FunDive Bingo! We have created a bingo sheet where you tick off FunDive targets as you spot them. A fun way to gamify citizen science, learn about fungi, and make fieldwork even more exciting! Perfect for classes, excursions, or your own mushroom walks.
- Thrilled to launch yet another #CitizenScience campaign for @fundive-fungi.bsky.social 🙃 The campaign' accompanying flyer is published in the open-access platform Zenodo, free to download, share, and cite: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... #UrbanBiodiversity #FunDive #Mycology #Conservation #iNaturalist
- 🍄Ever wondered what happens to your #FunDive specimens? Here is a sneak peek. We receive thousands of specimens, packed in random packages. After arrival, we sample a small piece for DNA extraction into the eppendorf tube. #CitizenScience #Biodiversa
- 🍄 #Typification: fixing fungal names Many species of fungi were described long ago with only a short phrase or drawing-no type (reference) specimen! This #FunDive campaign aims to collect type specimens & sequence DNA to anchor names and stabilize taxonomy. #Biodiversa 🌍 fun-dive.eu/en/get-invol...
- We know that 🍄Tricholoma eucalypticum🍄 grows with eucalyptus trees, but how many similar species exist in Europe? We don’t know! Help #FunDive to find out! For more educational materials, visit: fun-dive.eu/en/get-invol... #Biodiversa
- 🍄Microfungi on insects🍄 Fungi in the genus Hesperomyces are associated exclusively with ladybirds, visible as yellowish-greenish elongated balloons. We aim to map them in Europe and describe #newspecies. Join the #FunDive campaign! #Biodiversa fun-dive.eu/en/get-invol...
- 📣SAVE THE DATE📣 We are delighted to invite you to the meeting "Fungal Conservation in Europe: Evidence to Action" which will take place in Uppsala, Sweden 14-17 April 2026. Organized by SLU Artdatabanken, Swedish Mycological Society, ECCF, EMA, #FunDive, SLU, JONEF, and SPUN.
- 🍄Fungi that eat fungi🍄 The genus #Hypomyces parasitises exclusively other fungi, coating them in white mycelium that later becomes yellow, green or red. We aim to map them in Southern & Western Europe and discover new species. Join the new #FunDive campaign! #Biodiversa fun-dive.eu/en/get-invol...
- Hygrophorus + fir = 💚 Some waxycaps form strong mycorrhizal ties with firs (Abies), especially in Southern Europe. While some #Hygrophorus species are Red-listed, others are poorly studied. Join the new #FunDive campaign and help map them and their habitats! #Biodiversa fun-dive.eu/en/get-invol...
- 🍄Have you ever seen truffle-like #Russulales? Some Russula skip the classic mushroom shape (stipe, open cap and gills). Instead, they form enclosed, truffle-like fruitbodies! Join the new #FunDive campaign and help us map them and sequence their genomes fun-dive.eu/en/get-invol... @biodiversa.eu
- Did you know that the Copper Spike Mushroom (Chroogomphus rutilus) is a species complex with at least 8 similar species in Europe? Hiking in the pine forest on vacation? Help us map Chroogomphus distribution by sampling specimens from different European regions! #CitizenScience #Chroogomphus
- Let’s join the new FunDive sampling season! 🍄This year, we are not only continuing the projects started last year but also launching new ones🍄 ➡️Visit our webpage to learn more fun-dive.eu/en/get-invol... and join our fungal discovery mission!
- 🧬It's time to Read the Slime! #Slimemoulds are weird, wonderful, and still understudied fungi-like organisms. You can help understand them. Join the new FunDive citizen science campaign to find and sequence them 👉 fun-dive.eu/en/get-invol... #ReadTheSlime #CitizenScience #Barcoding #FunDive
