Course: Everyday Fungi: How it Shapes our World - Live Webinar

Our Biodiversity Shorts are a series of webinars that delve into a range of natural history topics, with live discussion and tuition from an expert tutor. All webinars will be hosted on Zoom, and they will be approximately one hour long, including time for questions from participants.

Mushrooms, or more precisely, fungi are all around us all the time. Learn how they shape our environment, help to feed us and affect or lives in numerous ways.

What You’ll Learn

This talk will explain some of the wildly different forms and lifestyles that different species have evolved into and the niches that they fill. In particular, it will cover some of the fungi you may commonly see anywhere in the UK and what they are doing for us there.

This webinar will include: 

• Examples of forms and lifestyles of fungi.
• Examples of habitat niches utilized by fungi.
• Examples of commonly encountered UK fungi species.

The Tutor

Chris Knowles is both an ecologist and a consultant field mycologist, carrying out fungus surveys for a variety of clients. He is also an active member of his local fungus group and the recorder for Edinburgh & Lothians.

Please refer to the Field Studies Council website for further information and to book.