Malte Jochum
@maltejochum.bsky.social
Community ecologist, father of two, outdoor enthusiast; Global Change, above-belowground, multitrophic interactions, energy flux; Professor for Above-belowground Interaction Ecology with @globalchangeeco.bsky.social @uniwuerzburg.bsky.social
New preprint out today: Solar parks ☀️ as an opportunity to jointly advance climate-change mitigation and biodiversity conservation 🐦 🦋 @nadja-simons.bsky.social @esme-ashe.bsky.social @christianhof.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... Figures @juliabeutling.bsky.social
Solar parks as an opportunity to jointly advance climate-change mitigation and biodiversity conservation
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Die Badische Zeitung berichtet über unseren #Weltrekord Versuch kommenden Samstag 10:00 - 18:00. Wir sind leider/glücklicherweise ausgebucht, tragt euch in die Warteliste ein. Zum Zuschauen & Informieren kann man aber immer kommen, es gibt Stände + Eis. www.freiburg.de/pb/2646931.h...
New preprint out today: Solar parks ☀️ as an opportunity to jointly advance climate-change mitigation and biodiversity conservation 🐦 🦋 @nadja-simons.bsky.social @esme-ashe.bsky.social @christianhof.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... Figures @juliabeutling.bsky.social
Solar parks as an opportunity to jointly advance climate-change mitigation and biodiversity conservation
ecoevorxiv.org
🦋🏔️ New article: How do arthropod traits shift with elevation? Across four groups in Italy's Vinschgau Valley, orthopterans and butterflies lose trait diversity higher up, while ants gain it. 🐜 DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.ba... @gfoesoc.bsky.social
Working with #arthropod #bodymass in #ecology? 🕷️🪲🦟🦗🐜🐝🪳🐞 Then this preprint is for you! Batch-measuring of body length, width, and area and calculation of individual level body mass! ⚖️ This is a game changer!🌐 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @wslresearch.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de @ethz.ch
AWET -- Arthropod Weight Estimation Tool https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.03.749054v1
Working with #arthropod #bodymass in #ecology? 🕷️🪲🦟🦗🐜🐝🪳🐞 Then this preprint is for you! Batch-measuring of body length, width, and area and calculation of individual level body mass! ⚖️ This is a game changer!🌐 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @wslresearch.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de @ethz.ch
Who wants to count bugs in dead spruce forests for their thesis? With @bmwildermuth.bsky.social at @idiv-research.bsky.social in collab. with PoToMa Project; www.idiv.de/education/ba... www.chemgeo.uni-jena.de/en/44572/pot...
Bachelor's and Master's Theses | iDiv
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Published today in @nature.com, our study shows that the #foodweb trophic structure is critical for #ecosystemfunctioning. Read it here: rdcu.be/frxEl This has been an incredibly rewarding collaboration with many amazing scientists! 🌐🧪🦑🍁🌱 @waikatouniversity.bsky.social @idiv-research.bsky.social
Das Thema [historische Hitzewelle] zur "Chefsache" zu machen, werde "das Wetter nicht ändern." Der Satz des Regierungssprechers wird in die Geschichtsbücher eingehen. Als Moment, da inmitten der Folgen der Klimaerhitzung noch immer nicht verstanden wurde, was der Klimawandel für Auswirkungen hat.
What *actually* works — right here, right now — to address climate change? Here you go. This is the result of thousands of hours of painstaking research and analysis from the Project Drawdown team.
Fortunate to be a part of this exciting study lead by Bingbing Wan in @pnas.org - Aridity drives changes in soil food web energy fluxes that explain variation in soil C storage: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🌏🌐🧪🌿🍄🦠🪱🪳🕷️
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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This blog post is provided by Lucy Johanson and Heloise Gibb and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article, “digging into dirt: rewilding with threatened mammals shapes soil insect assemblages”. buff.ly/cCQNL73
I’m looking for creative students for an exciting transdisciplinary project! Please share with potentially interested people 🎥🌴 @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social @biologie-uniwue.bsky.social
Effective conservation requires knowledge. Our recent paper led by Hendrik Mohr highlights knowledge gaps in our understanding of global change drivers on above/belowground organisms. These closely related and interacting systems require simultaneous study to untangle anthropogenic impacts 🦋🦗🕷️🪱
Malte Jochum@maltejochum.bsky.social · 5mo agoOur new preprint @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social summarizes research on simultaneous responses of above- & belowground organisms to global change across the 🌐. Congrats to #HendrikMohr on leading it and @esme-ashe.bsky.social! ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... @globalchangeeco.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de
Our new preprint @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social summarizes research on simultaneous responses of above- & belowground organisms to global change across the 🌐. Congrats to #HendrikMohr on leading it and @esme-ashe.bsky.social! ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... @globalchangeeco.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de
🚨 just a reminder that the proposal deadline for our cross-journal Special Feature, 'Mountain Biodiversity in the Anthropocene', with @jappliedecology.bsky.social, @journalofecology.bsky.social and @funecology.bsky.social, closes to submissions on 17 May🗻 Submit your proposal here: buff.ly/iNVgR40
Today marks 3 years since I started my group @uni-wuerzburg.de. It's been a great time thanks to a wonderful team and the best collaborators in Würzburg, Germany, and abroad! Thanks to all of you! Very much looking forward to more joint adventures! www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/gce/news/...
Successful first three years for Above-Belowground Interaction Ecology Group
Junior professor Malte Jochum and his Above-belowground interaction ecology group have just completed their third year at JMU Würzburg. After a positive mid-term evaluation of the junior professorship...
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🚨 New BE paper on #forest #microclimates!🌲 Across 11 years and 149 plots in Germany, variability was driven mainly by precipitation and outside temperatures -not by low- to medium-intensity timber harvest. #Climate extremes may pose the greatest #biodiversity risk.🌐 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Impacts of forest management on the inter-annual variability of forest microclimate - European Journal of Forest Research
The microclimatic conditions within forests have great importance for biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Consequently, understanding how management and associated changes in forest structure driv...
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Breaking news: giant springtail from Aotearoa NZ made the cover of @natecoevo.nature.com! This amazing pic of H. paucispinosa by @frankashwood.bsky.social should lure readers to the global study by @zheng-zhou.bsky.social et al on soil animal trophic diversity 🌍🌿🕷️🪱🪳🧪 www.nature.com/natecolevol/...
Our April issue is now live! www.nature.com/natecolevol/... Featuring research on: 🦑 squid and cuttlefish diversification 🌊 priority questions for blue carbon science 🐦⬛ the emergence of Usutu virus Cover image from Zhou et al (credit @frankashwood.bsky.social ) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New paper in Advances in Ecological Research: 'Quantifying the impact of social and ecosystem changes through expanded ecosystem multifunctionality metrics'. Led by Margot Neyret, we present the 'netNCP' approach. www.sciencedirect.com/science/chap...
A long-running experiment in Colorado provides an ‘alarming’ view of how rapidly unchecked global heating could transform fragile ecosystems www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘It’s like flowers on steroids’: what happened when scientists heated a Rocky Mountain wildlife meadow by 2C?
A long-running experiment in Colorado provides an ‘alarming’ view of how rapidly unchecked global heating could transform fragile ecosystems
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Here the authors use a large dataset of stable isotope observations to analyse how soil animal trophic diversity varies across climates and land-use types and identify potential biotic mechanisms 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Greater trophic diversity of soil animal communities under agricultural land use and tropical climate - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Soil fauna is an important but often neglected component of terrestrial food webs. Here the authors use a large dataset of stable isotope observations to analyse how soil animal trophic diversity vari...
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Forest stand age and deadwood diversity promote synergies between climate change and biodiversity loss mitigation. My 1st paper out now in Ecological Applications @esajournals.bsky.social esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Structural characteristics mediate forest mitigation potential against climate change and biodiversity loss
European forests play an important role for climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation. As they have been shaped by silviculture for centuries, it is important to understand how manageme...
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Greater trophic diversity of soil animal communities under agricultural land use and tropical climate. Just out in @natecoevo.nature.com led by Zheng Zhou and @antoncollembola.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌐
Greater trophic diversity of soil animal communities under agricultural land use and tropical climate - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Soil fauna is an important but often neglected component of terrestrial food webs. Here the authors use a large dataset of stable isotope observations to analyse how soil animal trophic diversity vari...
nature.com
Schätze müssen gehoben werden, so auch die Datenschätze zur #Biodiversität. Wir freuen uns über die Fortsetzung der Kooperation mit dem @lfu.bayern.de zur Nutzung der bayerischen Insektendaten, um zu neuen Erkenntnissen in Wissenschaft & Naturschutz beizutragen www.uni-wuerzburg.de/aktuelles/ei...
Insekten: Ein Datenschatz für Wissenschaft und Naturschutz
Wie verändert sich die Biodiversität unter Bayerns Insekten – und warum? Forschende der Uni Würzburg nutzen nun die Datenbank Karla.Natur des Bayerischen Landesamtes für Umwelt, um Zukunftstrends zu m...
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Promotionsstelle (75% für drei Jahre) im Bereich Stadtökologie Die Gruppe Stadtökologie und Biodiversität sucht neue Mitarbeiter*innen im Bereich Konnektivität urbaner Lebensräume, urbane Biodiversität und Mensch-Umwelt-Beziehungen. Weitere Informationen: jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/d...
Wissenschaftliche*n Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d) zur Promotion im Bereich Biodiversitätsförderung und Mensch-Umwelt-Beziehungen im urbanen Raum
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🌾🐛 New #BAAE article: Hidden insect food webs thrive inside perennial grass shoots 🌿 Longer shoots host richer herbivore–parasitoid communities. Unmown refuges are key to protecting these overlooked specialists. 🕷️ DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2026.01.004 @gfoesoc.bsky.social
