Name of contact person

Geographic focus (e.g., in and around a city, a province, multiple states, country-wide, continental)

Project category (according to Haelewaters et al. 2024, https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.13013)

Structured (project provides participants with targeted sampling approaches, protocols, or species lists)

https://www.mycologen.nl/onderzoek/systematiek-taxonomie/phragmo-project/

This project focuses on the diversity of jelly fungi (heterobasidiomycetes) in the low countries. In a first phase, we compiled identification keys to all genera and species of heterobasidiomycetes (in Dutch). In a second phase, we are sampling all species in this geographic area for morphological documentation, and barcoding (ITS region). Heterobasidiomycetes with dimorphic lifecycles are cultivated, and cultures are deposited at the DSMZ fungal culture collection (Braunschweig, Germany). Our data are used in international scientific studies, and have revealed several previously undescribed species of heterobasidiomycetes.

Taxonomic and phylogenetic studies on wild mushroom specimens collected in Greece (4th part)

Ταξινομική και φυλογενετική μελέτη συλλογών αυτοφυών μανιταριών της Ελλάδας (μέρος τέταρτο)

datasets created mainly in MS excel files

Unstructured (project forms part of broad recording scheme, project aggregates observations through online database, by digitizing foray collections, or from dried specimens sent to professional mycologists for validation)

No link is currently available (the site is under construction)

Fungarium ACAM (Agricultural University of Athens, Laboratory of General and Agricultural Microbiology), Athens, Greece. In addition, many amateur mycologists maintain dry specimens in their own personal collections.

It depends on the area sampled. If it is located within a protected area (e.g. national park), then a permit is required for sampling

This the the fourth consecutive project on this subject (assessment of the diversity of macrofungi in Greece) which is jointly funded by the Greek Mushroom Society and the Agricultural University of Athens

country wide, recording possible internationally

native app (Svampeatlas) + webpage (svampe.databasen.org)

Unstructured (project forms part of broad recording scheme, project aggregates observations through online database, by digitizing foray collections, or from dried specimens sent to professional mycologists for validation)

We use competions to nudge participants to focus collecting on underexplored regions, fungal groups as well as redlisted fungi. Further we have used sequecing as a identification tool

a special web-based application was developed particularly for that CS campaign, observations will be uploaded to PlutoF

Structured (project provides participants with targeted sampling approaches, protocols, or species lists)

Nationwide CS campaign “Ready! Set! Lichen!” focused on collecting digital photo-based data on lichen distributions comparatively on live trees in forests versus in cut-over sites. The campaign took place from 26 June to 31 October 2021. The results are published in Biodiversity and Conservation journal https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-023-02724-6

Unstructured (project forms part of broad recording scheme, project aggregates observations through online database, by digitizing foray collections, or from dried specimens sent to professional mycologists for validation)

sometimes they are deposited - Latvian National Museum of Natural History

Dabasdati.lv is nation-wide project working with all organism groups, its not specifically mycological

web-based application at www.samblik.ee

Structured (project provides participants with targeted sampling approaches, protocols, or species lists)

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10531-023-02724-6

PlutoF https://plutof.ut.ee/en, UNITE https://unite.ut.ee/index.php

Structured (project provides participants with targeted sampling approaches, protocols, or species lists)

TUF, mycological collections of the University of Tartu

Citizen Science Surveillance of Triazole-Resistant Aspergillus fumigatus in United Kingdom Residential Garden Soils

Citizen Science Surveillance of Triazole-Resistant Aspergillus fumigatus in United Kingdom Residential Garden Soils

Derived (project invites participants to submit environmental, i.e., non-fruiting body, samples from which fungi can be obtained or sequenced)

N/A - Is fungal ascomycete citizen science project rather than basidiomycete frtuit body

Project has already been published: Shelton JMG et al (2022). Citizen Science Surveillance of Triazole-Resistant Aspergillus fumigatus in United Kingdom Residential Garden Soils. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 88: Issue 4 e02061-21

We have our own website: schimmelradar.nl

Structured (project provides participants with targeted sampling approaches, protocols, or species lists)

We are studying triazole (antifungal) resistance in airborne Aspergillus fumigatus and specifically it's spatial distribution in the Netherlands.

Crowdsourcing fungal biodiversity: revision of iNaturalist observations in Northwestern Siberia

Волонтены изучения разнообразия грибов: ревизия наблюдений на платформе iNaturalist на севере Западной Сибири

Northern West Siberia (Tyumen region, including Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug and Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug)

Structured (project provides participants with targeted sampling approaches, protocols, or species lists)

https://sibmyco.org/education/inaturalist/

The Fungarium of Yugra State University (https://fungariumysu.org/)

The results of the project were published in a paper: Filippova N.V., Ageev D.V., Basov Yu.M., Bilous V.V., Bochkov D.A., Bolshakov S.Yu., Bushmakova G.N., Butunina E.A., Davydov E.A., Esengeldenova A.Yu., Filippov I.V., Filippova A.V., Gerasimov S.V., Kalinina L.B., Kinnunen J., Korepanov A.A., Korotkikh N.N., Kuzmin I.V., Kvashnin S.V., Mingalimova A.I., Nakonechnyi N.V., Nurkhanov R.N., Popov E.S., Potapov K.O., Rebriev Yu.A., Rezvyi A.S., Romanova S.R., Strus T.L., Sundström C., Svetasheva T.Yu., Tabone M., Tsarakhova S.G., Vasina A.L., Vlasenko A.V., Vlasenko V.A., Yakovchenko L.S., Yakovlev A.A., Zvyagina E.A. 2022. Crowdsourcing fungal biodiversity: revision of iNaturalist observations in Northwestern Siberia // Nature Conservation Research. Vol. 7(Suppl.1). P. 64–78. https://dx.doi.org/10.24189/ncr.2022.023

Structured (project provides participants with targeted sampling approaches, protocols, or species lists)

https://funguslab.pl/produkt/grzyby-funkcjonalne-szkolenie/

Unstructured (project forms part of broad recording scheme, project aggregates observations through online database, by digitizing foray collections, or from dried specimens sent to professional mycologists for validation)

https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/mycoblitz-europe

Dedicated project site, within the verspreidingsatlas framework from the Netherlands.

Structured (project provides participants with targeted sampling approaches, protocols, or species lists)

https://www.verspreidingsatlas.nl/projecten/blwg/stadskorstmossen/

Structured (project provides participants with targeted sampling approaches, protocols, or species lists)

https://shop.blwg.nl/products/zelf-onderzoek-doen-aan-korstmossen-en-ammoniak

Taxon-free approach to estimate the relative abundance of nitrophytic and nitrophobic lichens on way-side trees in the countryside. This is a simplified version of a professional monitoring scheme that follows the method described by C.M. Van Herk (1999) Mapping of ammonia pollution with epiphytic lichens in the Netherlands. Lichenologist 31: 9-20. We consider adding a website to collect data. For now, a pictural guide, printed registration form and booklet are provided. The pictural guide can also be downloaded for free. It had been sold (or given away for free) over 3000 times by the Dutch Bryological and Lichenological Society, especially to highschool students and local nature groups.

Hauts-de-France district (northern France)

Structured (project provides participants with targeted sampling approaches, protocols, or species lists)

The project in preparation concerns Fungi in private gardens. Otherwise, SMNF is leading regional inventories (focused on its members, not really Citizen Science) involving a more scientific approach, with voucher specimens deposited in LIP herbarium.

It is primarily based on simple way - question from public, answer from expert. For selected species (suggested for protection by law) platform on website www.biolib.cz is used,

Unstructured (project forms part of broad recording scheme, project aggregates observations through online database, by digitizing foray collections, or from dried specimens sent to professional mycologists for validation)

https://www.facebook.com/groups/makromycetes

We collect data as part of citizen science. Campaigns aimed at collecting specific species.

For example: https://kasztelaniaostrowska.com.pl/wydarzenia/dzikie-dziedzictwo-czeka-na-twoje-odkrycie-kwiecien-2024-poszukuj-z-nami-stanowisk-piestrzenic-i-smardzow/

In the group, mycologists collect data on the geographical distribution of mushrooms as needed. Optionally, lay participants provide samples to mycologists for microscopy or DNA sequencing. In case of interesting findings, joint articles are published.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/Hryby.Ukrayiny

Partly deposited in the collection of CWU, KW, KWU

It is an App that can be used anywhere, although we from the Micocyl Program are using it at the regional level of Castilla y León (an autonomous regional community of Spain).

https://www.mikogest.net/pagina/smartbasket

Derived (project invites participants to submit environmental, i.e., non-fruiting body, samples from which fungi can be obtained or sequenced)

https://www.mikogest.net/pagina/smartbasket

In the mycological preserves managed by the Micocyl Program (www.micocyl.es) it is necessary to have authorization for the study. This authorization is directly provided by the Micocyl Program technicians.

From the Micocyl Program, volunteers who are experts in mycological taxonomics are encouraged to record their discoveries through the Smartbasket App. The technicians of this project also carry out weekly sampling in spring and autumn (when mycological fruiting begins) and we record our field work through this App.

Artsobservasjoner.no (https://www.artsobservasjoner.no/?Key=990 - also English option)

Unstructured (project forms part of broad recording scheme, project aggregates observations through online database, by digitizing foray collections, or from dried specimens sent to professional mycologists for validation)

Not spesific within Artsobservasjoner.no.

Mostly no vouchers, but if - we collaborate with Fungarium Oslo https://www.nhm.uio.no/english/collections/mycological/fungi/index.html

VERA-app and NDFF verspreidingsatlas.nl

Structured (project provides participants with targeted sampling approaches, protocols, or species lists)

https://www.mycologen.nl/onderzoek/meetnet/

More information also here: https://www.netwerkecologischemonitoring.nl/meetprogrammas/paddenstoelen

VERA-app or NDFF verspreidingsatlas.nl

Unstructured (project forms part of broad recording scheme, project aggregates observations through online database, by digitizing foray collections, or from dried specimens sent to professional mycologists for validation)

https://www.mycologen.nl/onderzoek/kartering/

Vouchers are required depending on validation criteria that have been determined for all species. This project also allows mycologists to propose new species to be added to the list of Dutch mushrooms. Resulting distribution maps and other data are made publicly available via verspreidingsatlas.nl

El macizo de Moncayo, en Sistema Iberico. Entre las provincias de Soria (Castilla León) y Zaragoza (ARAGÓN)

Unstructured (project forms part of broad recording scheme, project aggregates observations through online database, by digitizing foray collections, or from dried specimens sent to professional mycologists for validation)

https://spain.inaturalist.org/projects/sm-moncayo

Mycological catalog of distinct habitats in the interior of Aragon

Zaragoza, Huesca y Teruel, mas sus alrededores

Unstructured (project forms part of broad recording scheme, project aggregates observations through online database, by digitizing foray collections, or from dried specimens sent to professional mycologists for validation)

ATLAS DE LA FLORA DE ARAGON - HONGOS y en nuestro herbario

Gruppo di lavoro della società Lichenologica Italina per la Citizen Science

Structured (project provides participants with targeted sampling approaches, protocols, or species lists)

Mykis, Pilzgucker, Pilzkartierung 2000 online

Unstructured (project forms part of broad recording scheme, project aggregates observations through online database, by digitizing foray collections, or from dried specimens sent to professional mycologists for validation)

https://www.dgfm-ev.de/naturschutz-und-kartierung/kartierung

This is the general project, subprojects mit special targeting are include here

Unstructured (project forms part of broad recording scheme, project aggregates observations through online database, by digitizing foray collections, or from dried specimens sent to professional mycologists for validation)

https://ndm.isprambiente.it/en/homepage-english/

It depends on the specific Italian region where the collections are made. In most cases, collection permits are required

Since from May 2021, in collaboration with the SBI – Società Botanica Italiana, AMER – Associazione Micologica Ecologica Romana, UMI – Unione Micologica Italiana, GMB – Gruppo Micologico Bresadola, MUSE – Museo delle Scienze di Trento, Centro Micologico Friulano e Associazione Micologica Valcanale-Canal del Ferro-Tarvisio, Gruppo Micologico AMB di Crema, KCS Biotech S.R.L., Università di Pavia, AGMT – Associazione Gruppi Micologici Toscani, the Network has developed the census of macromycetes on the national territory initiative. The census was created to collect and publish data on the surveys of macromycetes fungi in a public national database available to all users, called Fungi Information System – SIF. The data are collected and sent to the Network by the subjects who adhere according to protocols and standards defined by the Scientific Committee. The transmission takes place using specific IT applications (web and mobile apps). The census and the activities of the Network for the study of mycological diversity are largely based on the voluntary contribution of amateur mycologists.

Structured (project provides participants with targeted sampling approaches, protocols, or species lists)

https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/rare-and-protected-fungi-associated-with-spruce

Nature Research Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania (BILAS)

In and around the city of Coimbra, Portugal

Unstructured (project forms part of broad recording scheme, project aggregates observations through online database, by digitizing foray collections, or from dried specimens sent to professional mycologists for validation)

https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/cogumelos-na-cidade

COI - Herbarium of University of Coimbra

The "Mushrooms in the City" project aims to engage citizens in Coimbra, Portugal, to generate high-quality (research-grade, RG), observations of macrofungi on iNaturalist citizen science platform, mostly with associated collections. We aim to make Coimbra a model for the involvement of citizen scientists in documenting and protecting fungi for the rest of the country. As of 26 June 2024,, 252 people have recorded ca. 3500 observations, corresponding to 286 fungal species with RG identification, validated by 317 identifiers. Our RG observations contain new records for Portugal in GBIF, including globally threatened species. Note that most vouchers are still not officially deposited in COI, but available through MyCoLAB and, for a few, ITS sequences are available. The project is co-managed by Susana C. Gonçalves and Susana Cunha. Outputs: https://zenodo.org/records/10160699 and https://zenodo.org/records/10124864. Mention: https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/conl.13013. Media coverage: https://wilder.pt/historias/cidadaos-ja-encontraram-mais-de-160-especies-de-cogumelos-em-coimbra

Structured (project provides participants with targeted sampling approaches, protocols, or species lists)

https://www.bryolich.ch/mfig/mfig_en.html

mostly private collections, participants are free to select a herbarium or not

Unstructured (project forms part of broad recording scheme, project aggregates observations through online database, by digitizing foray collections, or from dried specimens sent to professional mycologists for validation)

https://www.facebook.com/groups/FungosPortugal

We have been the main citizen science effort in Portugal since 2007, with a strong focus on taxonomy and the education of future mycologists in Portugal. Several new records for the country, the coninent and Science are part of our databases, some of these already published in peer-review journals. We have about 900 vouchers conserved in an institutional herbarium, fully recorded. We have been building didactic materials both in Facebook and Youtube and expanding the critical mass in Portugal over the years.

Artportalen (the Swedish species information system), Facebook

Structured (project provides participants with targeted sampling approaches, protocols, or species lists)

Herbarium GB, Gothenburd and Museum of evolution, Uppsala

The funga watch program is done in close collaboration with the regional conservation authorities. 2023 was a first pilot, and from 2024 we increased the number of participants. At the moment we focus mainly on grassland species as there are regional species action plans connected to this species group.

ՖանԴայվ «Սնկերի բազմազանության մշտադիտարկում և քարտեզագրում բնության պահպանության համար»

Structured (project provides participants with targeted sampling approaches, protocols, or species lists)

The Herbarium of the Institute of Botany of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences (ERE)

The Lichen Research and Conservation Group of the Institute of Botany after A. Takhtajyan, NAS RA, the Armenian collaborating partner in the project, is primarily focused on documenting and collecting specimens of the fungal genus Geastrum and the lichen genus Dermatocarpon.

From molecules to ecosystems and beyond model systems! | An Eco-Evo-Devo framework for contextualizing mycorrhizal symbioses across time and space

From molecules to ecosystems and beyond model systems! | An Eco-Evo-Devo framework for contextualizing mycorrhizal symbioses across time and space

West Coast of North America (California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia) and various Pacific Islands (Channel Islands, San Juan Islands, Vancouver Island, Haida Gwaii archipelago)

Structured (project provides participants with targeted sampling approaches, protocols, or species lists)

https://drive.proton.me/urls/PVEWCS4BD0#Q0pEIRVcFyxd

Still working out these details but we intend to keep vouchered specimens, with temporary plans to maintain replicates at Stanford and the Denver Botanic Garden. Open to suggestions!

Generally not applicable but certain locations (Haida) may be more stringent about collecting fruiting bodies.

As a non traditional student (and high-school-dropout), I know what it’s like to want to make a difference but not know how. I was nearly 30 years old when I finally found my passion for science and started community college. Now, as a PhD student at Stanford, I am excited welcome people from all walks of life to contribute to science. Let’s make a difference together.

Unstructured (project forms part of broad recording scheme, project aggregates observations through online database, by digitizing foray collections, or from dried specimens sent to professional mycologists for validation)

https://www.facebook.com/groups/FungosPortugal

We have been the main citizen science effort in Portugal since 2007, with a strong focus on taxonomy and the education of future mycologists in Portugal. Several new records for the country, the coninent and Science are part of our databases, some of these already published in peer-review journals. We have about 900 vouchers conserved in an institutional herbarium, fully recorded. We have been building didactic materials both in Facebook and Youtube and expanding the critical mass in Portugal over the years.

Unstructured (project forms part of broad recording scheme, project aggregates observations through online database, by digitizing foray collections, or from dried specimens sent to professional mycologists for validation)

https://www.spotteron.com/pilzfinder/menu

separately programmed platform for the OEMG

Unstructured (project forms part of broad recording scheme, project aggregates observations through online database, by digitizing foray collections, or from dried specimens sent to professional mycologists for validation)

was started already as a citizen science project in the year 1980, at times when the terminus technicus "citizen science" was still more or less unknown