Tom Volk's Links to some other mycological resources on the internet.

I presented a poster with Kathie Hodge at the 1998 MSA meeting on the The Impact of the Internet on Mycology. You can view the online version of the poster here!

If you're interested in Mycology as a profession or are interested in what professional mycologists are up to, I highly recommend visiting the home page of The Mycological Society of America for information on Mycology in North America and lots of links to interesting places in Mycological Cyberspace.
For further information on plant pathogens that affect many types of crop plants and forests and what plant pathologists are doing about them, you should visit the home page of the American Phytopathological Society.
For some wonderful books on Mycology I highly recommend you visit Bryce Kendrick's Mycologue Publications, which includes information on his great textbook on Mycology, "The Fifth Kingdom," available in print as well as on CD-ROM. Bryce's information is very current and well-written in a style that's easy for everyone to read. Visit now!
George Barron of the Department of Environmental Biology at the University of Guelph in Southern Ontario has published a field guide to Mushrooms of Northeast North America, also published as "Mushrooms of Ontario and Eastern Canada." I've got my copy and it's really a beautiful book. The organization is marvelous and the photographs are wonderful. Please visit his web page for more information. It's very well done and a must have for every amateur and professional field mycologist in this area. Congratulations, George!
I also highly recommend you visit Pat Leacock's Lactarius.com. There's lots of information on biodiversity, as well as other intersting work at the Field Museum in Chicago.
A great innovation in disseminating biodiversity and taxonomic information may be found at Digital Exsiccate of Fungi. The Digital Exsiccate of Fungi is an online database offering descriptions of wood-decay fungi primarily in the genera Hyphodontia and Botryobasidium complemented by detailed illustrations. It is maintained in Germany by Ewald Langer and Gitta Langer.
For another fungal biodiversity site, I would suggest you check out Roy Halling's and Greg Mueller's web page on Macrofungi of Costa Rica. This page is an excellent example of succinct, user-friendly reporting of biodiversity information in a way that is accessible to researchers, students and the public. Including pictures is certainly more likely to get people's attention than the mere publishing of a list, or even a list with descriptions. Not that publishing lists is bad-- I've done it myself!
If you're interested in learning something about medical mycology, I highly recommend the Medical Mycology Page at Doctorfungus.org. This site is very well put together and contains lots of information on and pictures of various human diseases and conditions that are caused by fungi.
Be sure to visit Fun facts about fungi from Robert Fogel and Patricia Rogers of the University of Michigan Herbarium. A very well-done (and fun) site!
You can also visit a nice Medical Mycology web site set up by the UW- Madison Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology.
Here's a link to a very comprehensive mushroom book called Mushrooms of Northeastern North America. This book is "the" book for mushrooms in the northeast and midwest, including nearly 1500 species and 650 color photographs--- plus keys. I'm using it for my Mycology course in the fall semester. There's a computerized key to genera of the gilled mushrooms at that website that I suggest you try out. Looks good! I also suggest you check out Dave Fischer's Real Answers About Mushrooms.
For additional images and descriptions of fungi, check out Mike Wood and Fred Stevens' really outstanding "Fungi of California" Mykoweb: Mike's Mycological Museum, where you will finds links to pictures and descriptions of over 300 species of fungi with more than 1100 photographs. Their website is worth many return visits. They also have a CD-ROM version of all their excellent pictures and descriptions.
For some other interesting mushrooming opportunities in California and Oregon, including the Breitenbush Mushroom Conference, I recommend you check out Charoom's Wild about Mushrooms web page. It's very cool.
If you can read German, you can visit Elfi Appelt's site at http://www.appelt.org/ for lots of information and beautiful pictures of mushrooms, especially morels.
Learn about edible and medicinal wild vegetables, herbs, greens, fruits, berries, nuts, seeds, and mushrooms with NYC's favorite naturalist, "Wildman" Steve Brill. Find out about his public Wild Food and Ecology tours in local parks, and the work he does with kids. Read excerpts from his books, enjoy his botanical artwork and vegetarian recipes, and find out what happened after he was arrested and handcuffed by undercover NYC park rangers for eating a dandelion in Central Park! See http://www.wildmanstevebrill.com/
Ever wonder what the connections are between the sexual state (teleomorph) of a fungus (or the fungus in its entirety-- the holomorph) and its asexual state (anamorph)? Now there's a searchable database at The Anamorph/Holomorph Connections Database at the University of Alberta in Canada. Very well done. I encourage you to contribute if you can!
I could list lots of other great Mycological sites, but this has already been done by several others. The most extensive and impressive listing of Mycological Resources on the Internet is maintained by Kathie Hodge at Cornell University. Thanks Kathie! For the rest of my pages on fungi, please click http://TomVolkFungi.net
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