FunDive: Engaging Citizen Scientists in Fungal Diversity Monitoring Across Europe to Boost Common Conservation Goals

Despite being essential for our ecosystems, fungi are often neglected in nature conservation and monitoring. FunDive engages citizen scientists from almost 30 European countries in coordinated campaigns to collect occurrence records of rare fungal taxa across the continent, to improve knowledge of pan-European fungal diversity and distribution patterns, which are crucial for understanding macroecological processes and help with data-driven European Red Listing decisions.