Fungi & Lichens
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Additional Resources
(Updated April 2025)
APPS
iNaturalist App – share your observations with the wider community
A joint project of the California Academy of Sciences and the National Geographic Society
Look for these projects:
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Lichens of New York City
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Fungi of NYC, a project of the New York Mycological Society
Articles & Reports
‘How Fungi Can Help Fight Climate Change.’
Schuerman, Lindsey Jean. One Earth. 10/25/21
https://www.oneearth.org/how-fungi-can-help-fight-climate-change/
Likin’ the Lichens in New York State.
New York State Parks Department Blog. 5/9/17.
https://nystateparks.blog/tag/lichen/
New York City Mycological Diversity Report. Jacob, Sigrid (author); Hayden, Larissa; Markowitz, Jess; Kousholt, Nancy (Contributors). New York Mycological Society. 2025.
The Overlooked Organisms That Keep Challenging Our Assumptions About Life
Yong, Ed. The Atlantic. 1/17/19
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/how-lichens-explain-and-re-explain-world/580681/
There’s Fungus Among Us.
New York State Parks Department Blog. 10/30/18
https://nystateparks.blog/2018/10/30/theres-fungus-among-us/
The Secret Lives of Fungi. They shape the world-and offer lessons for how to live in it.
Hsu, Hua. The New Yorker. 5/11/20.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/18/the-secret-lives-of-fungi
Books
Allen, Jessica L. and Landemer, James C. Urban Lichens: A Field Guide for Northeastern North America. Yale University Press. 2021.
Audubon Nature Handbook by Packham, Chris. Audubon. 2nd Edition, 2022.
https://shop.amnh.org/audubon-nature-handbook
Sheldrake, Merlin. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures. Random House. 2020.
https://www.merlinsheldrake.com/entangled-life
Simard, Suzanne. Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest.
DK Publishing/Knopf. 2021.
Educational Resources
About Lichens.
U.S. Forest Service.
https://www.fs.usda.gov/wildflowers/beauty/lichens/about.shtml
Audubon Nature Handbook by Packham, Chris. Audubon. 2nrd Edition, 2022.
https://shop.amnh.org/audubon-nature-handbook
See also Films & Videos below.
Films & Videos
‘Exploring the Amazing World of Lichens with Daniela dal Forno’.
Science How Series.
National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution
12/13/19. 29.31
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfmGz-pCGMo
‘Gifts of the Land: A Guided Nature Tour with Robin Wall Kimmerer’.
The Commons of the University of Kansas. 3/25/21. 20:4
‘What are lichens and why are they important?’
Live Talk with Scientist from Natural History Museum in London.
Aired 11.20.21. 34.42
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95bg93vpuEM
‘Live from Carl Schurz Park: Fungi and Lichens’ with Susan Hewitt.
Carl Schurz Park Conservancy. 4/6/21. 6:10
‘Fantastic Fungi: Remastered’.
Documentary film by Louie Schwartzberg.
https://movingart.tv/programs/ff_rema...
‘What’s In a Lichen?’.
Short Film by National Geographic Society featuring Tim Wheeler.
1.25.18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fkw_VF5zDT0
Organizations & Websites
Field Museum. Chicago, Il. The Field Museum is a major resource for mycological systematic and biodiversity studies.
https://www.fieldmuseum.org/department/focus-fungi-and-lichens
National Museum of Natural History. Washington, D.C. The Lichen Herbarium is one of the largest such collections in the world with over 230,00 specimens.
https://naturalhistory.si.edu/research/botany/collections-access/collections-overview
New York Botanical Garden
https://www.nybg.org/plant-research-and-conservation/explore/fungi-and-lichens/
New York Mycological Society
North American Mycological Association