ArticleConservation letters
The power of citizen science to advance fungal conservation.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Evidence for Reductions in Fungal Richness and Beta Diversity Dispersion Associated With Impervious Surfaces in California.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Indigenizing fungal biotechnology for planetary health: an opinion paper.Fungal biology and biotechnology · 2025Article
- Fungi and Myxomycetes of the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Biosphere Reserve, Mexico: A Comprehensive Review and Future Perspectives.IUBMB life · 2025Review
- Use of Ecological Networks to Reveal Interspecific Fungal Interactions from 150 Years of Foray Records.Mycobiology · 2025Article
- The contribution of tropical long-term studies to mycology.IMA fungus · 2024Review
- What Quality Suffices for Nanopore Metabarcoding? Reconsidering Methodology and Ectomycorrhizae in DecayingJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Introducing palmfungi.org, an integrated fungal-host data platform.Biodiversity data journal · 2024Article
- The diversity of ignorance and the ignorance of diversity: origins and implications of "shadow diversity" for conservation biology and extinction.Cambridge prisms. Extinction · 2024Review
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Abstract
Fungal conservation is gaining momentum globally, but many challenges remain. To advance further, more data are needed on fungal diversity across space and time. Fundamental information regarding population sizes, trends, and geographic ranges is also critical to accurately assess the extinction risk of individual species. However, obtaining these data is particularly difficult for fungi due to their immense diversity, complex and problematic taxonomy, and cryptic nature. This paper explores how citizen science (CS) projects can be lever-aged to advance fungal conservation efforts. We present several examples of past and ongoing CS-based projects to record and monitor fungal diversity. These include projects that are part of broad collecting schemes, those that provide participants with targeted sampling methods, and those whereby participants collect environmental samples from which fungi can be obtained. We also examine challenges and solutions for how such projects can capture fungal diversity, estimate species absences, broaden participation, improve data curation, and translate resulting data into actionable conservation measures. Finally, we close the paper with a call for professional mycologists to engage with amateurs and local communities, presenting a framework to determine whether a given project would likely benefit from participation by citizen scientists.
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