Emeritus Professor
- About
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- Email Address
- j.prosser@abdn.ac.uk
- School/Department
- School of Biological Sciences
External Memberships
The Microbiology Society
The Society for Applied Microbiology (Honorary Membership)
The American Society for Microbiology
The American Academy of Microbiology
The International Society for Microbial Ecology
The Royal Society of Edinburgh
The Royal Society of Biology
The Royal Society
Latest Publications
Nitrosotalea devaniterrae gen. nov., sp. nov., and Nitrosotalea sinensis sp. nov., two acidophilic ammonia oxidising archaea isolated from acidic soil, and proposal of the new order Nitrosotaleales ord. nov. within the class Nitrososphaeria of the phylum Nitrososphaerota
International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, vol. 74, no. 9Contributions to Journals: ArticlesNiche breadth specialisation impacts ecological and evolutionary adaptation following environmental change
The ISME Journal, wrae183Contributions to Journals: ArticlesHow and why in microbial ecology: an appeal for scientific aims, questions, hypotheses and theories
Environmental Microbiology, vol. 24, no. 11, pp. 4973-4980Contributions to Journals: Comments and DebatesChronic environmental perturbation influences microbial community assembly patterns
Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 56, no. 4, pp. 2300-2311Contributions to Journals: ArticlesRevisiting plant biological nitrification inhibition efficiency using multiple archaeal and bacterial ammonia-oxidising cultures
Biology and Fertility of Soils, vol. 58, pp. 241-249Contributions to Journals: Articles
Prizes and Awards
1994 Election as Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.
2005 Election as Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
2007 Francis Clark Distinguished Lecture in Soil Biology, Soil Science Society of America
2010 Russell Lecture, Rothamsted Experimental Station
2011-13 Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow
2012 Election as Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology
2013 OBE for Services to Environmental Science
2013 Visiting Fellow, St Edmund Hall, Oxford
2013 Honorary Membership of the Society for Applied Microbiology
2014 Society for Applied Microbiology Environmental Microbiology Lecture
2016 Election as Fellow of the Royal Society
2017 Honorary Life Membership of the Society for Applied Microbiology
2017 Honorary Degree Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Ljubljana
2018 West Riding Lecture in Microbiology, University of Sheffield
2018 Dean’s Lecture in Agriculture, University of Melbourne
2019 Chuck and Sue Rice International Agronomy Lecture, Kansas State University
2019 Chinese Academy of Sciences Distinguished International Professor
2019 Marine Environmental Science, Zhengzhong Distinguished Visiting Fellowship, University of Xiamen
- Publications
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Maintenance of soil functioning following erosion of microbial diversity
Environmental Microbiology, vol. 8, pp. 2162-2169Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2006.01098.x
Sheep-urine-induced changes in soil microbial community structure
FEMS Microbiology Ecology, vol. 56, pp. 310-320Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6941.2006.00072.x
Studying plant-microbe interactions using stable isotope technologies
Current Opinion in Biotechnology, vol. 17, pp. 98-102Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copbio.2006.01.001
Survival and activity of Lux-marked phenanthrene-degrading Pseudomonas stutzeri P16 under different conditions
Iranian Journal of Science and Technology Transaction A - Science, vol. 30, pp. 71-80Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe influence of synthetic sheep urine on ammonia oxidizing bacterial communities in grassland soil
FEMS Microbiology Ecology, vol. 56, pp. 444-454Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6941.2006.00070.x
Rhizosphere carbon flow: a driver of soil biodiversity
Biological Diversity and Function in Soils. Usher, M., Bardgett, R., Hopkins, D. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, pp. 154-167Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersStable isotope probing analysis of the influence of liming on root exudate utilization by soil microorganisms
Environmental Microbiology, vol. 7, no. 6, pp. 828-838Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2005.00756.x
Links between ammonia oxidizer species composition, functional diversity and nitrification kinetics in grassland soils
Environmental Microbiology, vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 676-684Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2005.00740.x
Flux and turnover of fixed carbon in soil microbial biomass of limed and unlimed plots of an upland grassland ecosystem
Environmental Microbiology, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 544-552Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2005.00722.x
Bacterial diversity promotes community stability and functional resilience after perturbation.
Environmental Microbiology, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 301-313Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2005.00695.x
Primary succession of soil Crenarchaeota across a receding glacier foreland
Environmental Microbiology, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 337-347Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2005.00698.x
Effects of grazing on microbial functional groups involved in soil N dynamics
Ecological Monographs, vol. 75, no. 1, pp. 65-80Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1890/03-0837
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Cultivation-independent in situ molecular analysis of bacteria involved in degradation of pentachlorophenol in soil.
Environmental Microbiology, vol. 7, pp. 1349-1360Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2005.00822.x
Grazers induce strong changes in the enzyme activity, size and composition of microbial functional groups involved in soil N dynamics.
Ecological Monographs, vol. 75, pp. 65-80Contributions to Journals: ArticlesInfluence of inorganic nitrogen-management regime on the diversity of nitrite oxidizing bacteria in agricultural grassland soils.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology, vol. 71, pp. 8323-8334Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.71.12.8323-8334.2005
Links between plant and rhizoplane bacterial communities in grassland soils characterized using molecular techniques.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology, vol. 71, pp. 6784-6792Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.71.11.6784-6792.2005
Nitrification
The Encyclopedia of Soils in the Environment. Hillel, D., Hatfield, J. L. (eds.). Elsevier, pp. 31-39Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersNitrogen in Soils: Nitrification
Encyclopedia of Soils in the Environment. Elsevier Inc., pp. 31-39, 9 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/B0-12-348530-4/00512-9
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Stable isotope probing links taxonomy with function in microbial communities - Microbial ecologists have a culture-independent means for analyzing sources of metabolic activities among complex mixtures of microbes
ASM News, vol. 71, pp. 169-173Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCarbon flow in an upland grassland: effect of liming on the flux of recently photosynthesised carbon to rhizosphere soil
Global Change Biology, vol. 10, no. 12, pp. 2100-2108Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2004.00883.x
Differential response of archaeal and bacterial communities to nitrogen inputs and pH changes in upland pasture rhizosphere soil
Environmental Microbiology, vol. 6, no. 8, pp. 861-867Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2004.00627.x
Anoxic nitrification in marine sediments.
Marine Ecology Progress Series, vol. 276, pp. 37-41Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDifferences between betaproteobacterial ammonia-oxidizing communities in marine sediments and those in overlying water
Applied and Environmental Microbiology, vol. 70, no. 6, pp. 3789-3793Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.70.6.3789-3793.2004
Spatial structure in soil chemical and microbiological properties in an upland grassland.
FEMS Microbiology Ecology, vol. 49, pp. 191-205Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.femsec.2004.03.005
Diversity of fungi in organic soils under a moorland--Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) gradient
Environmental Microbiology, vol. 5, no. 11, pp. 1121-1132Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1462-2920.2003.00522.x