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Aquatic fungi are crucial in ecosystems as resources for higher trophic levels, as parasites that control animal and plant populations, and as decomposers and pathogens that control carbon and nutrient cycling. Aquatic fungi thereby contribute to all four categories of ecosystem services:

Regulating services, like leaf litter decomposition and the self-cleaning capacity of ecosystems;
Supporting services, like nutrient cycling and bioindicators of environmental conditions.
Provisioning services, notably metabolites and clean water.
Cultural services, particularly educational and inspirational values.

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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Regulating services, like leaf litter decomposition and the self-cleaning capacity of ecosystems;

Supporting services, like nutrient cycling and bioindicators of environmental conditions.

Provisioning services, notably metabolites and clean water.

Cultural services, particularly educational and inspirational values.