MoSTFun (Monitoring Strategies and Tools to address knowledge gaps on aquatic Fungal biodiversity) is funded through the Biodiversa+ EU Biodiversity Partnership and thus part of a new wave of innovations in biodiversity monitoring across Europe. MoSTFun aims to reduce the knowledge gap on Aquatic Fungi (AF) by adding these vital organisms to biodiversity monitoring programs.

For this goal, MoSTFun unites scientists, biomonitoring experts and conservation professionals. It will perform new and specific sampling campaigns and reanalyze samples from existing biomonitoring programs, focusing mainly on DNA samples in both approaches. MoSTFun will establish collaborations with these biomonitoring programs to identify and use synergies but also to ensure that the tools and knowledge generated can be integrated into the very different types of existing monitoring programs.

It will also closely interact with stakeholders and end-users to create the motivation and momentum to uptake of the tools and knowledge generated into biodiversity policy.

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