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LloydChristmas
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Mushroom observation database or citizen scientist program?
#22253040 - 09/17/15 07:53 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Is there a legitimate organization that accepts and catalogs mushroom observations? I landed an internship on a nature preserve, and I'm looking for a project. One thought was to document mushrooms found on the property, but I need a somewhat official organization to report them to.
Any ideas?
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Bud Fuggins
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Re: Mushroom observation database or citizen scientist program? [Re: LloydChristmas]
#22253076 - 09/17/15 07:59 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Have you tried your largest university? I'm sure the myco society there could help you. Sorry for the rather obvious/steretypical response to this.
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The Lightning
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Re: Mushroom observation database or citizen scientist program? [Re: LloydChristmas]
#22254613 - 09/18/15 06:02 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Mushroom Observer is by far the best that I'm aware of for uploading photos and identifying collections to species level.
You will still need to use other sources for having things like microscopy and DNA sequencing done, if you wish to do that as well. Most herbariums will accept collections, but they rarely ever actually do any studies on them.
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Mrcloudy
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Re: Mushroom observation database or citizen scientist program? [Re: The Lightning]
#22255304 - 09/18/15 09:29 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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The Lightning said: Mushroom Observer is by far the best that I'm aware of for uploading photos and identifying collections to species level.
Mushroom Observer is a great resource. There can be petty squabbling from time to time over taxonomy, but I would like to think both parties learn something in those situations.
But something like this would be what you are after I think, You can map the observations to get something of a range map, people vote on the ID and propose new names if they think one does not fit, and Majority vote rules. A pretty good system, constantly being refined and tweaked.
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ToxicMan
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Re: Mushroom observation database or citizen scientist program? [Re: LloydChristmas]
#22257618 - 09/18/15 07:13 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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If you want your stuff to be official, you really need to find a registered herbarium to take your collections. A very common attitude I've seen among many professional mycologists is "show me".
You say you found that species? If you have the collection preserved, then an authority can examine them and confirm that you did (or not). If there are no collections to be examined, then there's just some sort of list that you made, and there's little evidence to back it up.
Actual collections are a true record of what fungal species you found. A future researcher may come along and find things among your collections that nobody now would even think to look for.
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Re: Mushroom observation database or citizen scientist program? [Re: ToxicMan]
#22258047 - 09/18/15 08:42 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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ToxicMan said: If you want your stuff to be official, you really need to find a registered herbarium to take your collections. A very common attitude I've seen among many professional mycologists is "show me".
You say you found that species? If you have the collection preserved, then an authority can examine them and confirm that you did (or not). If there are no collections to be examined, then there's just some sort of list that you made, and there's little evidence to back it up.
Actual collections are a true record of what fungal species you found. A future researcher may come along and find things among your collections that nobody now would even think to look for.
Very good advice.
I have a collection of as of today 127 dried Ganoderma acoss 17 different species, some of which have been sequenced. Some day I may send my collection to a herbarium if anyone will want hundreds of Ganoderma.Made up of specimens that have been sent to me from across the country and from several foreign nations and that I have collected locally.
Keep a sample of everything you find.
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LloydChristmas
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Re: Mushroom observation database or citizen scientist program? [Re: Mrcloudy]
#22263098 - 09/20/15 01:03 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Thank you guys for the advice. Looks like I've got a good place to start.
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