Shroomify vs SoilPlastic

Explore mushrooms, even with no signal. Shroomify is an independent mushroom field guide. Use a photo or illustrated questions to narrow down possible matches, then compare the details for yourself. IDENTIFY YOUR WAY • Photo assistance suggests a mushroom's type, cap color and other visible traits for you to check. Analysis runs on your device, without an internet connection. • Characteristic ID uses illustrated choices to narrow your shortlist, with an optional Advanced mode for finer details. • Search by common or scientific name to go straight to a species. BUILT FOR THE FIELD • Identification, the field guide and your logbook work offline once installed. • Browse 400+ species with 1,000+ photographs and regional datasets. • Typical seasonal records help order results for your selected area and month. • Expanded field guide notes and linked similar-species cards help you compare important features. • Save favorites and record finds in your personal, on-device logbook. WEATHER OUTLOOKS A free early preview combines recent and forecast weather with research into fungal records to show when conditions may be more or less favorable than usual for a species in a supported area. These outlooks need an internet connection. Coverage depends on the available evidence and current data, so not every area or mushroom has an outlook. Comparisons are with that area's usual conditions for the time of year, not a promise of how many mushrooms you will find or a ranking of one area's habitat against another. Share feedback from within the feature to help improve it. INDEPENDENT AND PRIVATE No adverts or cross-app tracking. Premium features are included on iOS, with no separate in-app purchase or subscription required in this release. Photos stay on your device unless you choose to contribute one. Photo contributions and forecast feedback are optional. Shroomify is a guide, not a guarantee. Always confirm a mushroom's identity and never eat a wild mushroom unless you are completely certain of what it is.

Plastic use has facilitated many practices in agriculture in the past decades. However, the increased application leads to aggregations of plastic in the fields in various contents. From the different plastic debris micro-, and nano-plastics (MNP) are derived and are small enough to be ingested by a wide range of organisms and can cross biological barriers at nano-scale and enter plant systems. This emerging risk has prompted first studies that confirmed the high potential of accumulation of MP in soils causing changes in physico-chemical soil properties. Consequently, this can cause alternation of soil functions such as soil water dynamics and ultimately affect related ecosystem services (ESS) like nutrient cycling, plant growth, and soil biodiversity, which have unmeasured impacts on the economy of the farm. These effects could be even magnified with the presence of MP in combination of other soil pollutants, such as pesticides and veterinary drugs or plastic additives (e.g. dyes), potentially exhibiting synergistic effects. Within the EU research project ‘Minagris’ these interactive mechanisms are explored and documented. This App /’SoilPlastic’ motivates and engages various stakeholders to contribute to this process by observing and documenting plastic residues/littering in and on soils, submitting anonymized content to a global database. The aim is to identify needs, improve farmer and citizen awareness, provide practitioners with scientifically sound guidance on the impact of different plastic uses and inputs on soil ecosystems – enabling them to make informed decisions – and joint development of novel strategies for reducing plastic contamination. Additionally, with the observed data, a better understanding of any potentially harmful impacts of plastic debris to soil functions, soil biodiversity, related ESS, agricultural productivity at the field level, and related socio-economic consequences at farm level is provided. The App is running on the SPOTTERON Citizen Science Platform at www.spotteron.net