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Next event: 
9.04.2024, Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs), Online.9.04.2024

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. 



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University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI) Switzerland  
Andreas Bruder – Principal investigator, Project leader

I’m a stream ecologist with a focus on functional biodiversity and ecosystem processes. I mainly use detritus-based food webs of streams to study how these elements of ecosystems are interlinked and modified by anthropogenic change. I established a laboratory to study all aspects of the biodiversity,ecology and biogeography of aquatic hyphomycetes, a diverse but understudied group of            freshwater saprobic fungi. I use knowledge gained from these studies in collaborative projects with international partners and stakeholders, for instance to develop functional bioindicators.

andreas.bruder@supsi.ch

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Isabel Fernandes – Researcher

I am a freshwater ecologist particularly fond of fungi. I want to understand how global changes can determine microbial communities diversity and activity and how that impacts freshwater ecosystem functioning. My interests include the effects of temperature, nutrient enrichment, biodiversity changes, fungicides, multiple stressors... My work range from lab to field work, from small tubes to mesocosms and streams. I use microscopy- and molecular-based techniques to assess microbial diversity. I am actively working towards aquatic fungi conservation and monitoring as a member of Biodiversa+ projects FUNACTION and MoSTFun and Co-chair of IUCN SSC Aquatic Fungi Specialist Group.
isabel.fernandes@supsi.ch

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Red Calore – Ph.D Candidate

I'm a PhD student at UZH with affiliations with Eawag and IM-SUPSI. My project aims to quantify and model aquatic fungi biodiversity in different habitats.

red.calore@supsi.ch

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Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB)    Germany
Andreas Bruder – Principal investigator, Project leader

I’m a stream ecologist with a focus on functional biodiversity and ecosystem processes. I mainly use detritus-based food webs of streams to study how these elements of ecosystems are interlinked and modified by anthropogenic change. I established a laboratory to study all aspects of the biodiversity,ecology and biogeography of aquatic hyphomycetes, a diverse but understudied group of freshwater saprobic fungi. I use knowledge gained from these studies in collaborative projects with international partners and stakeholders, for instance to develop functional bioindicators.

andreas.bruder@supsi.ch

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Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesSweden

UiT The Arctic University of NorwayNorway - TR

Institut de Ciències del Mar - Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain

University of TartuEstonia

Norwegian Institute for Nature ReasearchNorway AF

Indianapolis Zoological SocietyUnited States

GEO BON CanadaCanada


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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