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All resources from the webinar series will be posted here including the recordings of each session. The passwords to view each recording have been emailed to you.
Scroll down below videos to view extensive resource list

Part 1: What are fungi?

Part 2: Mushroom Ecology – What We Thought We Knew

Part 3: Cascadia: Fungal Paradise + North American Biogeography

Part 4: Fungal Conservation

Part 5: The Next Ten Years of Amateur Mycology

Community Science

• iNaturalist
• Tips for Making Observations of Macrofungi for iNaturalist
• Mushroom Observer

Identification

• Pacific Northwest Key Council (dichotomous keys)
• PNW Pictorial Keys (image based)
• Mykoweb (California)
  • Keys for many genera and groups
• Mushroom Expert (US-wide)
  • Key to Major Groups
• PNW Macrolichen Key

Books + Recommended Reading

• Free Botany textbook, Kingdom Fungi chapter
• Photographic Atlas, Fungi and Lichens chapter
• Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
• The Kingdom Fungi by Jens Petersen
• Mushrooms Demystified by David Arora
• Fungi and Trees: Their Complex Relationships by Lynne Boddy
• Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast by Noah Siegel and Christian Schwarz
• Conifers of the Pacific Slope by Michael Kauffmann (use code “PACIFIC-CONIFERS” for 40% off)

Open-Access Papers

• Mushrooms use convectively created airflows to disperse their spores (Dressaire et al., 2016)
• Fungal evolution: major ecological adaptations and evolutionary transitions (Naranjo-Ortiz and Gabaldon, 2019)
• Lichens redefined as complex ecosystems (Hawksworth & Grube, 2020) → commentary response to this paper

Fun Stuff

Using mycopigments to dye fabrics with northern California mushrooms

Fungal podcasts

• Welcome to Mushroom Hour
• Mushroom Revival Podcast

Terminology

Mykoweb Glossary

Taxonomy and Genetics

What is the most up-to-date name for this mushroom?

• Find it on Index Fungorum
• DNA Database for everything Fungi

Although this page is a bit technical and difficult to interpret, it can provide a valuable resource for learning about the naming history of fungi, including currently-accepted names (with some caveats):
Index Fungorum: http://www.indexfungorum.org/names/names.asp

DNA Database for everything Fungi: https://unite.ut.ee
Genbank: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/

Microscopy

• Which stains to use for specific features or groups: https://www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/mycology/microscopy/reagents