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

水生真菌(AF)控制着关键的生态系统过程，包括支持、供应、支持和调节服务。AF负责营养循环、污染物的分解和微藻水华的控制。然而，它们不包括在任何常规和大规模的生物多样性监测计划中。MoSTFun是一项泛欧洲倡议，汇集了8个欧洲伙伴、IUCN物种生存委员会和GEOBON专家的互补专业知识，以在大纬度范围内的大多数欧洲水生生态系统--从淡水到咸水和沿海--发展对AF及其服务的监测。MoSTFun的战略是以经济高效的方式利用现有资源：冰柜、档案和数据仓库是尚未开发的样本和数据来源(THEME3)。通过其伙伴关系和合作，MoSTFun前所未有地获得了来自生物多样性监测计划和长期研究计划的数据和样本。这将使MoSTFun能够填补整个欧洲关于AF多样性的知识空白(THEME2)。首先，我们将优化和应用最先进和最尖端的OMICS技术和采样战略(WP4)，从现有的DNA档案和冰川和沿海河口环境等研究不足的地区的案例研究中产生关于AF多样性和驱动因素的标准化数据(WP1，2)。我们还将挖掘公共生物多样性和遗传数据库，以了解现有资源的潜力，以从不同的数据来源(WP1)揭示AF多样性。将新生成和挖掘的数据与从现有数据库(也包括环境变量)、地球观测(EO、卫星)和地理信息系统数据获得的数据以及从利益相关者获得的知识相结合和集成，我们将开发必要的数据集成管道，以模拟AF生物多样性和驱动因素的跨空间和跨时间的模式，并最终提供给一组新的基本生物多样性变量(WP3)。这将揭示全球了解生物多样性和真菌在水环境中提供的关键服务的有用性和潜力。我们将进一步测试我们的优化方法(WP4)，用于监测一个新出现的地球健康问题，即抗真菌耐药性基因在环境中的传播(WP4)。通过一个新的知识行动中心(WP5)支持的利益相关者参与(所有WPS)，我们还将评估和开发最有效的战略和工具，以监测整个欧洲水域的生物多样性(THEME1)。MoSTFun联盟包括跨学科专家，促进相互补充的技能和专业知识的交流，为早期职业研究人员的培训和流动做出贡献。因此，MoSTFun将对将AF生物多样性纳入欧洲常规监测计划和战略产生临界质量以及社会和政策影响，并产生长期的跨国利益。

Aquatic fungi (AF) govern critical ecosystem processes involved in supporting, provisioning, supporting, and regulation services. AF are responsible for nutrient cycling, breakdown of pollutants, and control of microalgal blooms. However, they are not included in any routine and large-scale biodiversity monitoring programs. MoSTFun is a pan-European initiative that brings together the complementary expertises of 8 European partners, the IUCN Species Survival Commission, and GEOBON specialists to develop the monitoring of AF and their services in most European aquatic ecosystems, from freshwater to brackish and coastal, across a large latitudinal range. MoSTFun’s strategy is to capitalise on existing resources with a cost-efficient approach: freezers, archives, and data-repositories are untapped sources of samples and data (THEME3). With its partnerships and collaborations, MoSTFun has unprecedented access to data and samples from biodiversity monitoring programmes and long-term research initiatives. This will enable MoSTFun to fill knowledge-gaps on AF diversity throughout Europe (THEME2). First, we will optimise and apply the most advanced and cutting-edge -Omics technologies and sampling strategies (WP4) to produce standardised data on AF diversity and drivers from existing DNA archives and case studies in understudied areas like glaciers and coastal-estuarine environments (WP1,2). We will also mine public biodiversity and genetic databases to understand the potential of the resources already available to unravel AF diversity from different data sources (WP1). Combining and integrating newly generated and mined data with data obtained from available data-repositories (also including environmental variables), earth observation (EO, satellite) and GIS data, and knowledge gain from stakeholders, we will develop pipelines for data integration needed to model patterns of AF biodiversity and drivers across space and time, and ultimately feed into novel set of Essential Biodiversity Variables (WP3). This will reveal the usefulness and the potential for global understanding of biodiversity and key services provided by fungi in aquatic environments. We will further test our optimised methods (WP4) for use in monitoring of an emerging planetary health issue, i.e. the spread of antifungal resistance genes in the environment (WP4). With stakeholder engagement (all WPs) supported by a novel Knowledge-to-Action Hub (WP5), we will also assess and develop the most effective strategies and tools for AF biodiversity monitoring in waters across Europe (THEME1). The MoSTFun consortium includes interdisciplinary experts, fostering the exchange of complementary skills and expertise, contributing to the training and mobility of early career researchers. MoSTFun will thus create critical mass, as well as societal and policy impact for the inclusion of AF biodiversity in European routine monitoring programs and strategies, with long-lasting transnational benefits.