{
 "name": "World Mushroom Foraging open data",
 "url": "https://worldmushroomforaging.org/data",
 "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "attribution": "World Mushroom Foraging (Mushroom Forage Map), https://worldmushroomforaging.org",
 "notice": "A map observation is not an identification. Never eat a wild mushroom based on this data.",
 "datasets": [
  {
   "id": "seasonality",
   "title": "Mushroom seasonality by species and hemisphere",
   "description": "Records per calendar month for each catalogue mushroom, split by hemisphere. A month count is how many research-grade records fall in that month across all years, not a forecast. Hemisphere rows with fewer than 30 records, or species seen by fewer than 10 people, are left out.",
   "rows": 147,
   "snapshot": "2026-08-27",
   "source": "iNaturalist research-grade observations (iNaturalist open data, AWS Open Data Program)",
   "notes": "Derived from iNaturalist research-grade observations (iNaturalist open data, AWS Open Data Program), snapshot 2026-08-27. Counts only: no record ids, observers or coordinates. The CC BY 4.0 licence covers this compilation. Underlying observations belong to iNaturalist and its observers under the licences they chose; credit iNaturalist and its observers when you reuse it.",
   "json": "https://worldmushroomforaging.org/data/seasonality.json",
   "csv": "https://worldmushroomforaging.org/data/seasonality.csv"
  },
  {
   "id": "lookalikes",
   "title": "Mushroom lookalike pairs with field checks",
   "description": "Dangerous and harmless lookalikes for each guide, the field check that separates them, and whether the lookalike lists the species back. Severity words are the ones printed on each guide page and are not yet uniform across pairs, so read both pages of a pair. This is study material, not an edibility judgement.",
   "rows": 320,
   "snapshot": "2026-09-27",
   "source": "World Mushroom Foraging species guides",
   "notes": "Written by the World Mushroom Foraging field desk with cited sources on each species page. Independent expert review is pending.",
   "json": "https://worldmushroomforaging.org/data/lookalikes.json",
   "csv": "https://worldmushroomforaging.org/data/lookalikes.csv"
  },
  {
   "id": "species",
   "title": "Mushroom guide catalogue",
   "description": "The mushroom guides on World Mushroom Foraging with names, iNaturalist taxon ids, season and habitat notes, the printed safety warning, review status and page links. Edibility ratings are deliberately not part of this dataset.",
   "rows": 108,
   "snapshot": "2026-09-27",
   "source": "World Mushroom Foraging species guides",
   "notes": "Written by the World Mushroom Foraging field desk. Independent expert review is pending.",
   "json": "https://worldmushroomforaging.org/data/species.json",
   "csv": "https://worldmushroomforaging.org/data/species.csv"
  },
  {
   "id": "regions",
   "title": "Mushroom habitat regions",
   "description": "Ten worldwide habitat regions used for regional seasonality and the 90-day field signal, with bounding boxes (west, south, east, north) and hemisphere.",
   "rows": 10,
   "snapshot": "2026-09-27",
   "source": "World Mushroom Foraging",
   "notes": "Region boundaries are rectangles for grouping observations, not ecological borders.",
   "json": "https://worldmushroomforaging.org/data/regions.json",
   "csv": "https://worldmushroomforaging.org/data/regions.csv"
  },
  {
   "id": "regional-signal",
   "title": "Regional 90-day field signal",
   "live": true,
   "description": "Live aggregated counts per region. Species with fewer than three recent records are left out.",
   "json": "https://worldmushroomforaging.org/api/open-data/regional-signal"
  }
 ]
}