Lehrstuhl für Global Change Ecology

Prof. Dr. Malte Jochum

Prof. Dr. Malte Jochum

Juniorprofessor
am Lehrstuhl für Global Change Ecology
John-Skilton-Strasse 4a
Hubland Nord
97074 Würzburg
Deutschland
Raum: 03.B.36
Telefon: +49 931 31 80482

Nach Vereinbarung.

  • Seit 2023: Juniorprofessur am Lehrstuhl für Global Change Ecology, Würzburg
  • 2018-2023: Postdoc, iDiv/Universität Leipzig
  • 2017-2018: Postdoc, Universität Bern, Schweiz
  • 2016-2017: Postdoc: Universität Göttingen
  • 2012-2016: Promotion, Universität Göttingen (summa cum laude)
  • 2007-2012: Studium der Biologie, TU Darmstadt

Mitgliedschaft in Editorial Boards
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Animal Ecology (seit 06/2023)
  • Associate Editor, Ecology and Evolution (2020-2023)
Mitgliedschaft in wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaften
  • Gesellschaft für Ökologie (GfÖ)
  • British Ecological Society (BES)

2024[ to top ]
  • Gauzens B, Rosenbaum B, Kalinkat G, Boy T, Jochum M, Kortsch S, O’Gorman EJ, Brose U (2024) Flexible foraging behaviour increases predator vulnerability to climate change. Nature Climate Change.
  • Gauzens B, Kalinkat G, Antunes AC, Boy T, O’Gorman EJ, Jacob U, Jochum M, Kortsch S, Rosenbaum B, Figueiredo L, Brose U (2024) Quantitative description of six fish species’ gut contents and prey abundances in the Baltic Sea (1968--1978). Scientific Data 11: 236.
  • Potapov AM, Chen T-W, Striuchkova AV, Alatalo JM, Alexandre D, Arbea J, Ashton T, Ashwood F, Babenko AB, Bandyopadhyaya I, Baretta CRDM, Baretta D, Barnes AD, Bellini BC, Bendjaballah M, et al. (2024) Global fine-resolution data on springtail abundance and community structure. Scientific Data 11.
2023[ to top ]
  • Eisenhauer N, Ochoa-Hueso R, Huang Y, Barry KE, Gebler A, Guerra CA, Hines J, Jochum M, Andraczek K, Bucher SF, Buscot F, Ciobanu M, Chen H, Junker R, Lange M, et al. (2023) Ecosystem consequences of invertebrate decline. Current Biology 33: 4538-4547.e5.
  • Jochum M, Zizka V, Scheu S, Eisenhauer N, Pollierer M (2023) Global change in above-belowground multitrophic grassland communities. Research Ideas and Outcomes 9.
  • Potapov AM, Guerra CA, van den Hoogen J, Babenko A, Bellini BC, Berg MP, Chown SL, Deharveng L, Kováč Ľubomír, Kuznetsova NA, Ponge J-F, Potapov MB, Russell DJ, Alexandre D, Alatalo JM, et al. (2023) Globally invariant metabolism but density-diversity mismatch in springtails. Nature Communications 14.
  • Kempel A, Allan E, Gossner MM, Jochum M, Grace JB, Wardle DA (2023) From bottom‐up to top‐down control of invertebrate herbivores in a retrogressive chronosequence. Ecology Letters 26: 411–424.
2022[ to top ]
  • Antunes AC, Gauzens B, Brose U, Potapov AM, Jochum M, Santini L, Eisenhauer N, Ferlian O, Cesarz S, Scheu S, Hirt MR (2022) Environmental drivers of local abundance–mass scaling in soil animal communities. Oikos 2023.
  • Jochum M, Thouvenot L, Ferlian O, Zeiss R, Klarner B, Pruschitzki U, Johnson EA, Eisenhauer N (2022) Aboveground impacts of a belowground invader: how invasive earthworms alter aboveground arthropod communities in a northern North American forest. Biology Letters 18.
  • Jochum M (2022) Heat it up to slow it down: Individual energetics reveal how warming reduces stream decomposition. Journal of Animal Ecology 91: 1944–1947.
  • Klusmann C, Cesarz S, Ciobanu M, Ferlian O, Jochum M, Schädler M, Scheu S, Sünnemann M, Wall DH, Eisenhauer N (2022) Climate-change effects on the sex ratio of free-living soil nematodes – perspective and prospect.
2021[ to top ]
  • Potapov A, Schaefer I, Jochum M, Widyastuti R, Eisenhauer N, Scheu S (2021) Oil palm and rubber expansion facilitates earthworm invasion in Indonesia. Biological Invasions 23: 2783–2795.
  • Oelmann Y, Lange M, Leimer S, Roscher C, Aburto F, Alt F, Bange N, Berner D, Boch S, Boeddinghaus RS, Buscot F, Dassen S, De Deyn G, Eisenhauer N, Gleixner G, et al. (2021) Above- and belowground biodiversity jointly tighten the P cycle in agricultural grasslands. Nature Communications 12.
  • Sohlström EH, Archer LC, Gallo B, Jochum M, Kordas RL, Rall BC, Rosenbaum B, O’Gorman EJ (2021) Thermal acclimation increases the stability of a predator–prey interaction in warmer environments. Global Change Biology 27: 3765–3778.
  • Jochum M, Ferlian O, Thakur MP, Ciobanu M, Klarner B, Salamon J, Frelich LE, Johnson EA, Eisenhauer N (2021) Earthworm invasion causes declines across soil fauna size classes and biodiversity facets in northern North American forests. Oikos 130: 766–780.
  • Jochum M, Eisenhauer N (2021) Out of the dark: Using energy flux to connect above- and belowground communities and ecosystem functioning. European Journal of Soil Science 73.
  • Jochum M, Barnes AD, Brose U, Gauzens B, Sünnemann M, Amyntas A, Eisenhauer N (2021) For flux’s sake: General considerations for energy‐flux calculations in ecological communities. Ecology and Evolution 11: 12948–12969.
  • Beaumelle L, Thouvenot L, Hines J, Jochum M, Eisenhauer N, Phillips HRP (2021) Soil fauna diversity and chemical stressors: a review of knowledge gaps and roadmap for future research. Ecography 44: 845–859.
2020[ to top ]
  • Grass I, Kubitza C, Krishna VV, Corre MD, Mußhoff O, Pütz P, Drescher J, Rembold K, Ariyanti ES, Barnes AD, Brinkmann N, Brose U, Brümmer B, Buchori D, Daniel R, et al. (2020) Trade-offs between multifunctionality and profit in tropical smallholder landscapes. Nature Communications 11.
  • Potapov AM, Dupérré N, Jochum M, Dreczko K, Klarner B, Barnes AD, Krashevska V, Rembold K, Kreft H, Brose U, Widyastuti R, Harms D, Scheu S (2020) Functional losses in ground spider communities due to habitat structure degradation under tropical land‐use change. Ecology 101.
  • Felipe-Lucia MR, Soliveres S, Penone C, Fischer M, Ammer C, Boch S, Boeddinghaus RS, Bonkowski M, Buscot F, Fiore-Donno AM, Frank K, Goldmann K, Gossner MM, Hölzel N, Jochum M, et al. (2020) Land-use intensity alters networks between biodiversity, ecosystem functions, and services. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117: 28140–28149.
  • Jochum M, Fischer M, Isbell F, Roscher C, van der Plas F, Boch S, Boenisch G, Buchmann N, Catford JA, Cavender-Bares J, Ebeling A, Eisenhauer N, Gleixner G, Hölzel N, Kattge J, et al. (2020) The results of biodiversity–ecosystem functioning experiments are realistic. Nature Ecology & Evolution 4: 1485–1494.
  • Gallagher RV, Falster DS, Maitner BS, Salguero-Gómez R, Vandvik V, Pearse WD, Schneider FD, Kattge J, Poelen JH, Madin JS, Ankenbrand MJ, Penone C, Feng X, Adams VM, Alroy J, et al. (2020) Open Science principles for accelerating trait-based science across the Tree of Life. Nature Ecology & Evolution 4: 294–303.
2019[ to top ]
  • Archer LC, Sohlström EH, Gallo B, Jochum M, Woodward G, Kordas RL, Rall BC, O’Gorman EJ (2019) Consistent temperature dependence of functional response parameters and their use in predicting population abundance. Journal of Animal Ecology 88: 1670–1683.
  • Manning P, Loos J, Barnes AD, Batáry P, Bianchi FJ, Buchmann N, De Deyn GB, Ebeling A, Eisenhauer N, Fischer M, Fründ J, Grass I, Isselstein J, Jochum M, Klein AM, et al. (2019) Transferring biodiversity-ecosystem function research to the management of ‘real-world’ ecosystems. In Mechanisms underlying the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem function pp. 323–356.
  • Brose U, Archambault P, Barnes AD, Bersier L-F, Boy T, Canning-Clode J, Conti E, Dias M, Digel C, Dissanayake A, Flores AAV, Fussmann K, Gauzens B, Gray C, Häussler J, et al. (2019) Predator traits determine food-web architecture across ecosystems. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 919–927.
  • Eisenhauer N, Ferlian O, Craven D, Hines J, Jochum M (2019) Ecosystem responses to exotic earthworm invasion in northern North American forests. Research Ideas and Outcomes 5.
  • Schneider FD, Fichtmueller D, Gossner MM, Güntsch A, Jochum M, König‐Ries B, Le Provost G, Manning P, Ostrowski A, Penone C, Simons NK (2019) Towards an ecological trait‐data standard. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 10: 2006–2019.
  • Eisenhauer N, Schielzeth H, Barnes AD, Barry KE, Bonn A, Brose U, Bruelheide H, Buchmann N, Buscot F, Ebeling A, Ferlian O, Freschet GT, Giling DP, Hättenschwiler S, Hillebrand H, et al. (2019) A multitrophic perspective on biodiversity–ecosystem functioning research. In Mechanisms underlying the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem function pp. 1–54.
2018[ to top ]
  • Sohlström EH, Marian L, Barnes AD, Haneda NF, Scheu S, Rall BC, Brose U, Jochum M (2018) Applying generalized allometric regressions to predict live body mass of tropical and temperate arthropods. Ecology and Evolution 8: 12737–12749.
  • Barnes AD, Jochum M, Lefcheck JS, Eisenhauer N, Scherber C, O’Connor MI, de Ruiter P, Brose U (2018) Energy Flux: The Link between Multitrophic Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 33: 186–197.
  • Gauzens B, Barnes A, Giling DP, Hines J, Jochum M, Lefcheck JS, Rosenbaum B, Wang S, Brose U (2018) fluxweb: An R package to easily estimate energy fluxes in food webs. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 10: 270–279.
2017[ to top ]
  • Jochum M, Barnes AD, Weigelt P, Ott D, Rembold K, Farajallah A, Brose U (2017) Resource stoichiometry and availability modulate species richness and biomass of tropical litter macro‐invertebrates. Journal of Animal Ecology 86: 1114–1123.
  • Scrine J, Jochum M, Ólafsson JS, O’Gorman EJ (2017) Interactive effects of temperature and habitat complexity on freshwater communities. Ecology and Evolution 7: 9333–9346.
  • Barnes AD, Allen K, Kreft H, Corre MD, Jochum M, Veldkamp E, Clough Y, Daniel R, Darras K, Denmead LH, Farikhah Haneda N, Hertel D, Knohl A, Kotowska MM, Kurniawan S, et al. (2017) Direct and cascading impacts of tropical land-use change on multi-trophic biodiversity. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1: 1511–1519.
  • Jochum M, Barnes AD, Ott D, Lang B, Klarner B, Farajallah A, Scheu S, Brose U (2017) Decreasing Stoichiometric Resource Quality Drives Compensatory Feeding across Trophic Levels in Tropical Litter Invertebrate Communities. The American Naturalist 190: 131–143.
2016[ to top ]
  • Clough Y, Krishna VV, Corre MD, Darras K, Denmead LH, Meijide A, Moser S, Musshoff O, Steinebach S, Veldkamp E, Allen K, Barnes AD, Breidenbach N, Brose U, Buchori D, et al. (2016) Land-use choices follow profitability at the expense of ecological functions in Indonesian smallholder landscapes. Nature Communications 7.
  • Barnes AD, Weigelt P, Jochum M, Ott D, Hodapp D, Haneda NF, Brose U (2016) Species richness and biomass explain spatial turnover in ecosystem functioning across tropical and temperate ecosystems. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 371: 20150279.
2015[ to top ]
  • Kalinkat G, Jochum M, Brose U, Dell AI (2015) Body size and the behavioral ecology of insects: linking individuals to ecological communities. Current Opinion in Insect Science 9: 24-30.
  • Mumme S, Jochum M, Brose U, Haneda NF, Barnes AD (2015) Functional diversity and stability of litter-invertebrate communities following land-use change in Sumatra, Indonesia. Biological Conservation 191: 750-758.
2014[ to top ]
  • Barnes AD, Jochum M, Mumme S, Haneda NF, Farajallah A, Widarto TH, Brose U (2014) Consequences of tropical land use for multitrophic biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Nat Commun 5.
2012[ to top ]
  • Jochum M, Schneider F, Crowe T, Brose U, O’Gorman E (2012) Climate-induced changes in bottom-up and top-down processes independently alter a marine ecosystem. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 367: 2962-2970.