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Fungos únicos no planeta podem desaparecer sem deixar rasto Investigação liderada por cientistas portuguesas identifica fungos sem parentes próximos na árvore da vida, muitos sem dados suficientes para sabermos se já estão à beira da extinção.

Investigação liderada por cientistas portuguesas identifica fungos sem parentes próximos na árvore da vida, muitos sem dados suficientes para sabermos se já estão à beira da extinção.

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Prevalence of Red List DD Species Limits the Application of the EDGE Approach for Fungi Despite their importance, fungi remain underrepresented in global conservation priorities and largely absent from indicators established for monitoring progress within the Global Biodiversity Framewo...

First PhD paper out on @consletters.bsky.social 🎉

We identified 8 potential EDGE fungal species, a conservation metric so far not available for fungi. This study also revealed a large number of Data Deficient species, highlighting the need for more mycological research.

🔗 doi.org/10.1111/con4...

Thank you @spun.earth for highlighting our work!

This is also @susanapcunha.bsky.social first PhD paper! 🎉🎉 Steve Bachman, Eimear Nic Lughadha @rbgkew.bsky.social and I are proud supervisors 😊

Glad it found its home in @consletters.bsky.social!
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The biodiversity monitoring standards framework is a linked sequence of steps defined by the standards that each step adopts within a set of well-defined needs, principles, and ethical guidelines (Center). Every monitoring workflow would achieve an overall standard rating (potentially tiered) based on the standards adopted in each step. The monitoring workflow is implemented (Right) once the necessary resources, human capacity, technologies, and data architectures have been adopted.

One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “From data to decisions: Toward a Biodiversity Monitoring Standards Framework.” Explore the article here: https://ow.ly/8rzI50YvlN7

For more trending articles, visit https://ow.ly/kWUf50YvlN6

Contrasting Roles of Threatened and Non‐Threatened Species in European Food Webs Aim Assess the structural importance of threatened and non-threatened species within European food webs by quantifying their roles in maintaining network connectivity. Location Europe. Methods W...

Conservation requires looking beyond Red Lists alone. Across European food webs, non-threatened species play a strong role in maintaining network connectivity. With @fmestre.bsky.social @vinibastazini.bsky.social @consbiog.bsky.social @mncn-csic.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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In this review in Fungal Ecology, Håvard Kauserud (@drhyfe.bsky.social) argues that while the ITS region is by far the best DNA (meta)barcoding marker for fungi, we should not use it naively or simplistically doi.org/10.1016/j.fu...

📣 The deadline for this @britmycolsoc.org.uk special issue on fungal conservation has been extended to 15th March 2026.

Spread the word and don’t hesitate to contact @cfemycolab.bsky.social or me if you have any questions.

We’re looking forward to receiving your submissions! 🍄

New paper! Here we present the history, geographical distribution, and structure of organizations in #mycology across #Europe, as well as their activities—including journals, magazines, meetings, educational initiatives, and #citizenscience projects. doi.org/10.1007/s105... #FunDive

Statewide survey aims to put California’s fungi on the conservation map Getting to The Cedars, an ecological preserve in California’s Sonoma county, is a slog. Multiple rivers and creeks must be crossed, and it can be tough going on an often storm-destroyed road. But…

A state-funded survey across California has uncovered hundreds of fungi new to science, part of a first-of-its-kind biodiversity effort.

Often overlooked, fungi support plant growth and store carbon — knowledge that could guide conservation and forest restoration as wildfires intensify.

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Are you an ECSA member or a presenter at the #ECSA2026 conference? 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 will be open exclusively for you from 27 October to 10 November.
https://www.ecsa2026.ngo/

Thirty novel fungal lineages: formal description based on environmental samples and DNA Molecular analyses of soil and water commonly reveal large proportions of fungal taxa that cannot be assigned to any taxonomic or functional groups. Some of these so-called dark taxa have been encoded...

Tedersoo et al. shaking up fungal systematics, describing numerous new phyla, etc. based on relatively short eDNA data that we from beforehand know can give many spurious topologies in phylogenetic trees. (Interesting with a new phylum named Tartumycota 😳)
mycokeys.pensoft.net/article/1616...

Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs Dinidorid stinkbugs were reported to possess a conspicuous tympanal organ on female hindlegs. In this study, we show that this organ is specialized to retain microbial symbionts rather than to perceiv...

Wow, nature is too cool! Structures on stinkbug hind legs that used to be interpreted as ears are actually chambers with fungi. The bugs coat their eggs in those fungi to protect them against parasitoid wasps. 🧪

Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The role of ectomycorrhizal functional diversity in mediating soil carbon cycling under global change Click on the article title to read more.

A fun commentary with @christinakaiser.bsky.social inspired by a very cool paper in New Phyt by @fungidownunder.bsky.social et al. showing that EcM fungal functional traits affect soil C responses to elevated CO2. EcM species and traits really matter!

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Thrilled to announce that the special issue on fungal #conservation that @cfemycolab.bsky.social and I are co-editing for the @britmycolsoc.org.uk c.org.uk journal Fungal Ecology is open for submissions!
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Mario's super-sized mushroom exists in real life While they actually power-up trees and not plumbers, the 40 year-old video game helped make toadstools mainstream.

Mario likes mushrooms! www.popsci.com/science/real...

Why rewilders shouldn’t forget about fungi These mostly hidden life forms have a big role to play in rewilding – and need its support, too.

Article I wrote for Rewilding Magazine, also featuring some of my photography. Check it out.

www.rewildingmag.com/why-rewilder...

@iucnfungi.bsky.social!!

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"Improving citizen science: Co-creating recommendations with researchers and the public"

A pre-print about an exciting project with Science for All, supported by the Australian Citizen Science Association & the Australian Academy of Science

doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#citizenscience #public #science

👆👆Two more #citizenscience projects to the growing database @dhaelewa.bsky.social ☺️

I made a flyer! Know anyone in CA, OR, WA, or BC who might be interested in collecting mushrooms for research purposes? #mycology #citizenscience

Please share widely! 🧪 🍄‍🟫 🌲

A PDF version can be found here: drive.proton.me/urls/W1MM4FG...

Thank you! I'll look into it.

"If we lose hope, we're doomed."

We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

It's fall, y'all. 🍂
Oyster mushroom.
#fungi #fungifriends #mushroom

The kind of science I want on a Friday afternoon 😜