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1.10.2025: Our BetterTogether survey is still open for biodiversity monitoring programs and projects.  ////  15/16.10.2025: Red Calore and Andreas Bruder sampled the Basòdino glacier in northern Ticino for aquatic fungi biodiversity.  ////  21. - 24.10.2025: Andreas Bruder, Isabel Fernandes and Eirik Finne (re)present MoSTFun at the LivingData2025 conference. Connect with them if you are participating!

Monitoring Strategies and Tools to address knowledge gaps on aquatic Fungal biodiversity


MoSTFun is a Biodiversa+ funded project that aims at including aquatic fungi (i.e. fungi living in freshwater and marine ecosystems) in routine biodiversity monitoring programs. Aquatic fungi play crucial roles for ecosystems functioning as saprotrophs and parasites, but they are overlooked in current monitoring programmes.            
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Test current monitoring programs and initiatives for their potential to include monitoring of aquatic fungi taxonomic and functional diversity.

Fill methodological knowledge gaps to make routine monitoring of aquatic fungi biodiversity possible and effective.

Develop datasets on aquatic fungi biodiversity from ongoing monitoring programs and expand them to understudied ecosystems (estuaries, coastal, (peri-)glacial ecosystems).

Integrate different data sources and technologies on AF biodiversity for predictive modelling and to develop Essential Biodiversity Variables for aquatic fungi.

Develop a stakeholder-accepted monitoring strategy at the European level through an Aquatic Fungi Knowledge-to-Action Hub.

Working together to include aquatic fungi biodiversity in monitoring routines!


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21-24 Oct 2025 News MoSTFun represented at LivingData2025 conference         15-16 Oct 2025 News The Swiss team sampling the highest glacier in Ticino         01 Jun 2025 Mini report Mobility at UiT The Arctic University of Norway and sampling glaciers-estuaries 01 Mar 2025 Mini report Sampling estuaries in Northern Spain        27 Feb 2025 Mini report  Digital freezers         20 Dec 2025 Mini report  Updates from Norwegian Sampling Campaign 2024
“Society and environmental policy tends to care about the big animals and plants, but in ecosystems it’s often the small and inconspicuous beings, such as fungi, that do the heavy lifting. They contribute disproportionately to the good functioning and stability of ecosystems. If we as a society care about the health of ecosystems, we need to understand and monitor how the biodiversity of aquatic fungi is changing across space and time, and for this we need their inclusion in standardized biomonitoring programs. MoSTFun is making the first steps towards this goal”




Andreas Bruder
Senior Scientist, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland

MoSTFun is one of the 33 projects funded in the Biodiversa+ and the European Union joint call for projects in 2022 on “Improved transnational monitoring of biodiversity and ecosystem change for science and society” (BiodivMon). Biodiversa+ is the European Biodiversity Partnership supporting excellent research on biodiversity with an impact for society and policy. This call represents a financial commitment of more than 46 million Euro from the participating countries and co-funding from the European Commission.
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