Professor James Prosser
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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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: ArticlesPreferential temperature and ammonia concentration for in-situ growth of Candidatus Nіtrоѕосоѕmісuѕ ammonia oxidising archaea
Soil Biology and Biochemistry, vol. 162, 108405Contributions to Journals: ArticlesTowards meaningful scales in ecosystem microbiome research
Environmental Microbiology, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 1-4Contributions to Journals: ArticlesExperimental testing of hypotheses for temperature- and pH-based niche specialization of ammonia oxidizing archaea and bacteria
Environmental Microbiology, vol. 22, no. 9, pp. 4032-4045Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.15192
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Oxygen preference of deeply-rooted mesophilic thaumarchaeota in forest soil
Soil Biology and Biochemistry, vol. 148, 107848Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDifferential Ecosystem Function Stability of Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea and Bacteria following Short-Term Environmental Perturbation
mSystems, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 1-14Contributions to Journals: ArticlesConceptual challenges in microbial community ecology
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, vol. 375, no. 1798, 20190241Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0241
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Putting science back into microbial ecology: a question of approach
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 375, no. 1798, pp. 20190240Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0240
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/14143/1/Prosser_PhiTransB_AAM.pdf
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Selective inhibition of ammonia oxidising archaea by simvastatin stimulates growth of ammonia oxidising bacteria
Soil Biology and Biochemistry, vol. 141, 107673Contributions to Journals: ArticlesNitrous oxide production by ammonia oxidizers: Physiological diversity, niche differentiation and potential mitigation strategies
Global Change Biology, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 103-118Contributions to Journals: Review articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14877
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/15422/1/Prosser_GlobalChangeBiology_AAM.pdf
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The application of high-throughput sequencing technology to analysis of amoA phylogeny and environmental niche specialisation of terrestrial bacterial ammonia-oxidisers
Environmental Microbiome, vol. 14, 3Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40793-019-0342-6
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/12531/1/The_application_of_high_throughput_sequencing_technology_to_analysis_of_amoA_phylogeny_and_environmental_niche_specialisation_of_terrestrial_bacterial_ammonia_oxidisers.pdf
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- [ONLINE] https://environmentalmicrobiome.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40793-019-0342-6
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Genome Sequence of “Candidatus Nitrosocosmicus franklandus” C13, a Terrestrial Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaeon
Microbiology Resource Announcements, vol. 8, no. 40, e00435-19Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDifferential sensitivity of ammonia oxidising archaea and bacteria to matric and osmotic potential
Soil Biology and Biochemistry, vol. 129, pp. 184-190Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2018.11.017
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/13276/1/Bello_et_al_accepted.pdf
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Approaches to understanding the ecology and evolution of understudied terrestrial archaeal ammonia-oxidisers
Emerging Topics in Life Sciences , vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 619-328Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSoil bacterial networks are less stable under drought than fungal networks
Nature Communications, vol. 9, 3033Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPhysiological models in microbiology: Volume II
CRC Press. 159 pagesBooks and Reports: Books- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1201/9781351075640
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The consequences of niche and physiological differentiation of archaeal and bacterial ammonia oxidisers for nitrous oxide emissions
The ISME Journal, vol. 12, pp. 1084-1093Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAmmonia-oxidising archaea living at low pH: Insights from comparative genomics
Environmental Microbiology, vol. 19, no. 12, pp. 4939-4952Contributions to Journals: ArticlesArchaea produce lower yields of N2O than bacteria during aerobic ammonia oxidation in soil
Environmental Microbiology, vol. 19, no. 12, pp. 4829-4837Contributions to Journals: ArticlesKinetics of NH3-oxidation, NO-turnover, N2O-production and electron flow during oxygen depletion in model bacterial and archaeal ammonia oxidisers
Environmental Microbiology, vol. 19, no. 12, pp. 4882-4896Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAbiotic Conversion of Extracellular NH2OH Contributes to N2O Emission during Ammonia Oxidation
Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 51, no. 22, pp. 13122–13132Contributions to Journals: ArticlesLinks between seawater flooding, soil ammonia oxidiser communities and their response to changes in salinity
FEMS Microbiology Ecology, vol. 93, no. 11, pp. 1-13Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAmmonia oxidisers in a non-nitrifying Brazilian savanna soil
FEMS Microbiology Ecology, vol. 93, no. 11, fix122Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fix122
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/11145/1/Catao_et_al_20_08_17.pdf
Spotlight on… Jim Prosser
FEMS Microbiology Letters, vol. 18, no. 2, fnx183Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/femsle/fnx183
Chemotaxonomic characterisation of the thaumarchaeal lipidome
Environmental Microbiology, vol. 19, no. 7, pp. 2681-2700Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.13759
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/10467/1/Chemotaxonomic_characterization_of_the_thaumarchaeal_lipidome.pdf
- [ONLINE] http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=ORCID&SrcApp=OrcidOrg&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL&KeyUT=WOS:000405907300014&KeyUID=WOS:000405907300014
Editorial: FEMS Letters: investing in science for 40 years
FEMS Microbiology Letters, vol. 364, no. 10, fnx095Contributions to Journals: EditorialsAdvances in the study of the microbiome
Microbiology Today, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 95-96Contributions to Journals: Comments and DebatesTemperature responses of soil ammonia-oxidising archaea depend on pH
Soil Biology and Biochemistry, vol. 106, pp. 61-68Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2016.12.007
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The Role of Microbial Community Composition in Controlling Soil Respiration Responses to Temperature
PloS ONE, vol. 11, no. 10, e0165448Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCandidatus Nitrosotalea
Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. Whitman, P. W. B. (ed.). Wiley-BlackwellChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.gbm01292
Candidatus Nitrosotaleaceae
Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. Whitman, P. W. B. (ed.). Wiley-BlackwellChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.fbm00264
Candidatus Nitrosotaleales
Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. Whitman, P. W. B. (ed.). Wiley-BlackwellChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.obm00123
Ecology of Archaea
Oxford Bibliographies in Ecology. Gibson, D. (ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Other Contributions- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199830060-0160
Stream drying drives microbial ammonia oxidation and first-flush nitrate export
Ecology, vol. 97, no. 9, pp. 2192-2198Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.1486
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/6284/1/Merbt_et_al._2c_2016_2c_Ecology.pdf
A timely reminder of technical limitations
Microbial Biotechnology, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 435Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPlant nitrogen-use strategy as a driver of rhizosphere archaeal and bacterial ammonia oxidiser abundance
FEMS Microbiology Ecology, vol. 92, no. 7, fiw091Contributions to Journals: ArticlesIdentifying Potential Mechanisms Enabling Acidophily in the Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaeon “Candidatus Nitrosotalea devanaterra”
Applied and Environmental Microbiology, vol. 82, no. 9, pp. 2608-2619Contributions to Journals: ArticlesIsolation of 'Candidatus Nitrosocosmicus franklandus', a novel ureolytic soil archaeal ammonia oxidiser with tolerance to high ammonia concentration
FEMS Microbiology Ecology, vol. 92, no. 5, pp. 1-10Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiw057
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/6131/1/fiw057.full.pdf
Short-term impact of soybean management on ammonia oxidizers in a Brazilian savanna under restoration as revealed by coupling different techniques
Biology and Fertility of Soils, vol. 52, no. 3, pp. 401-412Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00374-015-1086-0
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/8036/1/BFSO_D_15_00573_R2.pdf
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Microbes as engines of ecosystem function: When does community structure enhance predictions of ecosystem processes?
Frontiers in Microbiology, vol. 7, pp. 1-10Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2016.00214
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/6096/1/fmicb_07_00214.pdf
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Phylogenetic congruence and ecological coherence in terrestrial Thaumarchaeota
The ISME Journal, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 85-96Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCoupling of diversification and pH adaptation during the evolution of terrestrial Thaumarchaeota
PNAS, vol. 112, no. 30, pp. 9370-9375Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDispersing misconceptions and identifying opportunities for the use of 'omics' in soil microbial ecology
Nature Reviews Microbiology, vol. 13, no. 7, pp. 439-446Contributions to Journals: Editorials- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nrmicro3468
pH as a Driver for Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea in Forest Soils
Microbial Ecology, vol. 69, no. 4, pp. 879-883Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-014-0548-5
Ammonia oxidation is not required for growth of Group 1.1c soil Thaumarchaeota
FEMS Microbiology Ecology, vol. 91, no. 3, fiv001Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiv001
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/4385/1/Amonia_oxidation.pdf
Differential response of non-adapted ammonia oxidising archaea and bacteria to drying rewetting stress
FEMS Microbiology Ecology, vol. 90, no. 2, pp. 380-389Contributions to Journals: Articles
