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Originally Posted by SheffieldLass  I think it is an excellent idea ... and as a stickied thread. Maybe if someone as knowledgeable as Chris checks out the websites first, see if the info is generally reliable and the link worthy of inclusion. And first on the list should be that excellent German Mollisia website!! OK, some websites do disappear, but the good ones seem to stay and get developed further. I for one can do with as much help as there is out there to identify fungi and the 'not-quite-fungi' like myxomycetes, and I'm sure I'm just one of many with only very small fungi id libraries at our fingertips.
Cheers
Melanie |
I also think that it's a good idea but
no way would I be so arrogant as to give a 'yea or nay' to any sites . . . . for example, I use the FRDBI daily at the moment as I am updating my work on the Yorkshire rust fungi, but it has its fair share of slips, duplicate records etc. - it's up to individual users to work through the records and come to their own conclusions
we can all comment on sites, photo's on the web etc. as we wish - I agree Andreas' site is very good, as is Stip Helleman's on
Orbilia and other discomycetes, Tom Volk's Fungus Pages are full of information, the BMS is making some of its identification guides available online, M.C. Cooke's colossal
Illustrations of British Fungi has been made available online (admittedly not very well, but I can carp because I am lucky enough to have access to the original volumes at work
), Index Fungorum means that you can very often read the
original description of a fungus and can sort out the minefield of synonyms . . .
surely we do not need to worry about drawing people's attention to such sites, often put together by amateurs
for amateurs
at a time when - in this country at least - mycological taxonomy is on its last legs (I wince when I see the occasional jibe at taxonomists on these pages - you'll miss them when they're gone!) it is crazy that more information is not out in the public domain - but I am a bit of an anarchist when it comes to making as much information as possible available to the largest number of people
cheers
Chris