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Professor James Prosser

Professor James Prosser
Professor James Prosser
Professor James Prosser

Emeritus Professor

About
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

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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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  • Multitrophic interactions in the rhizosphere: Rhizosphere microbiology: at the interface of many disciplines and expertises

    Hartmann, A., Lemanceau, P., Prosser, J. I.
    FEMS Microbiology Ecology, vol. 65, no. 2, pp. 179
    Contributions to Journals: Editorials

  • Growth, activity and temperature responses of ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria in soil microcosms

    Tourna, M., Freitag, T. E., Nicol, G. W., Prosser, J. I.
    Environmental Microbiology, vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 1357-1364
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Rhizosphere bacterial community composition responds to arbuscular mycorrhiza, but not to reductions in microbial activity induced by foliar cutting

    Vestergård, M., Henry, F., Rangel-Castro, J. I., Michelsen, A., Prosser, J. I., Christensen, S.
    FEMS Microbiology Ecology, vol. 64, no. 1, pp. 78-89
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Effects of aboveground grazing on coupling among nitrifier activity, abundance and community structure

    Le Roux, X., Poly, F., Currey, P., Commeaux, C., Hai, B., Nicol, G. W., Prosser, J. I., Schloter, M., Attard, E., Klumpp, K.
    The ISME Journal, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 221-232
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Relationship between assemblages of mycorrhizal fungi and bacteria on grass roots

    Singh, B. K., Nunan, N., Ridgway, K. P., McNicol, J., Young, J. P. W., Daniell, T. J., Prosser, J. I., Millard, P.
    Environmental Microbiology, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 534-541
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • From the chief editor - January 2008

    Prosser, J.
    FEMS Microbiology Ecology, vol. 63, no. 1, pp. 1-1
    Contributions to Journals: Editorials

  • Effect of earthworms on the community structure of active methanotrophic bacteria in a landfill cover soil

    Héry, M., Singer, A. C., Kumaresan, D., Bodrossy, L., Stralis-Pavese, N., Prosser, J. I., Thompson, I. P., Murrell, J. C.
    The ISME Journal, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 92-104
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Microorganisms, macroorganisms and ecology

    Head, I. M., Prosser, J. I.
    FEMS Microbiology Ecology, vol. 62, no. 2, pp. 133-134
    Contributions to Journals: Editorials

  • Identity of active methanotrophs in landfill cover soil as revealed by DNA-stable isotope probing

    Cébron, A., Bodrossy, L., Chen, Y., Singer, A. C., Thompson, I. P., Prosser, J. I., Murrell, J. C.
    FEMS Microbiology Ecology, vol. 62, no. 1, pp. 12-23
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Decline of soil microbial diversity does not influence the resistance and resilience of key soil microbial functional groups following a model disturbance

    Wertz, S., Degrange, V., Prosser, J. I., Poly, F., Commeaux, C., Guillaumaud, N., Le Roux, X.
    Environmental Microbiology, vol. 9, no. 9, pp. 2211-2219
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The ecology of nitrifying bacteria

    Prosser, J. I.
    Biology of the Nitrogen Cycle. Bothe, H., Ferguson, S., Newton, W. (eds.). Elsevier, pp. 223-243, 21 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • The prokaryotes

    Killham, K. S., Prosser, J. I.
    Soil Microbiology, Ecology and Biochemistry. Paul, E. A. (ed.). 3rd edition. Academic Press, pp. 119-144, 26 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • From the chief editor - January 2007

    Prosser, J.
    FEMS Microbiology Ecology, vol. 59, no. 1, pp. 1
    Contributions to Journals: Editorials

  • Afforestation of moorland leads to changes in crenarchaeal community structure

    Nicol, G. W., Campbell, C. D., Chapman, S. J., Prosser, J. I.
    FEMS Microbiology Ecology, vol. 60, no. 1, pp. 51-59
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Microorganisms cycling soil nutrients and their diversity

    Prosser, J. I.
    Modern soil microbiology. van Elsas, J., Jansson, J., Trevors, J. T. (eds.). 2nd edition. CRC Press, pp. 237-261
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Nutrient Amendments in Soil DNA Stable Isotope Probing Experiments Reduce the Observed Methanotroph Diversity

    Cebron, A., Bodrossy, L., Stralis-Pavese, N., Singer, A. C., Thompson, I. P., Prosser, J. I., Murrell, J. C.
    Applied and Environmental Microbiology, vol. 73, no. 3, pp. 798-807
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Detection of active bacterial populations in soil

    Timms-Wilson, T. M., Griffiths, R. I., Whiteley, A. S., Prosser, J. I., Bailey, M. J.
    Modern Soil Microbiology. Elsas, J. D. v., Jansson, J. K., Trevors, J. T. (eds.). 2nd edition. CRC Press, pp. 387-409, 23 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Archaea predominate among ammonia-oxidizing prokaryotes in soils

    Leininger, S., Urich, T., Schloter, M., Schwark, L., Qi, J., Nicol, G. W., Prosser, J. I., Schuster, S. C., Schleper, C.
    Nature, vol. 442, pp. 806-809
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Crenarchaeal community assembly and microdiversity in developing soils at two sites associated with deglaciation

    Nicol, G. W., Tscherko, D., Chang, L., Hammesfahr, U., Prosser, J. I.
    Environmental Microbiology, vol. 8, no. 8, pp. 1382-1393
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Changes in the community structure and activity of betaproteobacterial ammonia-oxidizing sediment bacteria along a freshwater–marine gradient

    Freitag, T. E., Chang, L., Prosser, J. I.
    Environmental Microbiology, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 684-696
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Nitrosospira spp. can produce nitrous oxide via a nitrifier denitrification pathway

    Shaw, L. J., Nicol, G. W., Smith, Z., Fear, J., Prosser, J. I., Baggs, E. M.
    Environmental Microbiology, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 214-222
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • From the chief editor

    Prosser, J.
    FEMS Microbiology Ecology, vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 1-1
    Contributions to Journals: Editorials

  • Comparison of PCR primer-based strategies for characterization of ammonia oxidizer communities in environmental samples

    Mahmood, S., Freitag, T. E., Prosser, J. I.
    FEMS Microbiology Ecology, vol. 56, pp. 482-493
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Effects of management regime and plant species on the enzyme activity and genetic structure of N-fixing, denitrifying and nitrifying bacterial communities in grassland soils

    Patra, A. K., Abbadie, L., Clays-Josserand, A., Degrange, V., Grayston, S. J., Guillaumaud, N., Loiseau, P., Louault, F., Mahmood, S., Nazaret, S., Philipott, L., Poly, F., Prosser, J. I., Le Roux, I.
    Environmental Microbiology, vol. 8, pp. 1005-1016
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Maintenance of soil functioning following erosion of microbial diversity

    Wertz, S., Degrange, V., Prosser, J. I., Poly, F., Commeaux, C., Freitag, T. E., Guillaumaud, N., Le Roux, I.
    Environmental Microbiology, vol. 8, pp. 2162-2169
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Sheep-urine-induced changes in soil microbial community structure

    Nunan, N., Singh, B., Reid, E., Ord, B., Papert, A. L., Squires, J., Prosser, J. I., Wheatley, R., McNicol, J. W., Millard, P.
    FEMS Microbiology Ecology, vol. 56, pp. 310-320
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Studying plant-microbe interactions using stable isotope technologies

    Prosser, J. I., Rangel-Castro, J. I., Killham, K. S.
    Current Opinion in Biotechnology, vol. 17, pp. 98-102
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Survival and activity of Lux-marked phenanthrene-degrading Pseudomonas stutzeri P16 under different conditions

    Mashreghi, M., Prosser, J. I.
    Iranian Journal of Science and Technology Transaction A - Science, vol. 30, pp. 71-80
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The influence of synthetic sheep urine on ammonia oxidizing bacterial communities in grassland soil

    Mahmood, S., Prosser, J. I.
    FEMS Microbiology Ecology, vol. 56, pp. 444-454
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Rhizosphere carbon flow: a driver of soil biodiversity

    Standing, D. B., Rangel-Castro, J. I., Prosser, J. I., Meharg, A. A., Killham, K. S.
    Biological Diversity and Function in Soils. Usher, M., Bardgett, R., Hopkins, D. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, pp. 154-167
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Stable isotope probing analysis of the influence of liming on root exudate utilization by soil microorganisms

    Rangel-Castro, J. I., Killham, K. S., Ostle, N., Nicol, G. W., Anderson, I. C., Scrimgeour, C. M., Ineson, P., Meharg, A. A., Prosser, J. I.
    Environmental Microbiology, vol. 7, no. 6, pp. 828-838
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Links between ammonia oxidizer species composition, functional diversity and nitrification kinetics in grassland soils

    Webster, G., Embley, T. M., Freitag, T. E., Smith, Z., Prosser, J. I.
    Environmental Microbiology, vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 676-684
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Flux and turnover of fixed carbon in soil microbial biomass of limed and unlimed plots of an upland grassland ecosystem

    Rangel-Castro, J. I., Prosser, J. I., Ostle, N., Scrimgeour, C. M., Killham, K. S., Meharg, A. A.
    Environmental Microbiology, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 544-552
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Bacterial diversity promotes community stability and functional resilience after perturbation.

    Girvan, M. S., Campbell, C. D., Killham, K. S., Prosser, J. I., Glover, L. A.
    Environmental Microbiology, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 301-313
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Primary succession of soil Crenarchaeota across a receding glacier foreland

    Nicol, G. W., Tscherko, D., Embley, T. M., Prosser, J. I.
    Environmental Microbiology, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 337-347
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Effects of grazing on microbial functional groups involved in soil N dynamics

    Patra, A. K., Abbadie, L., Clays-Josserand, A., Degrange, V., Grayston, S. J., Loiseau, P., Louault, F., Mahmood, S., Nazaret, S., Philippot, L., Poly, F., Prosser, J. I., Richaume, A., Le Roux, X.
    Ecological Monographs, vol. 75, no. 1, pp. 65-80
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Cultivation-independent in situ molecular analysis of bacteria involved in degradation of pentachlorophenol in soil.

    Mahmood, S., Paton, G. I., Prosser, J. I.
    Environmental Microbiology, vol. 7, pp. 1349-1360
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Grazers induce strong changes in the enzyme activity, size and composition of microbial functional groups involved in soil N dynamics.

    Patra, A. K., Abbadie, L., Clays-Josserand, A., Degrange, V., Grayston, S. J., Loiseau, P., Louault, F., Mahmood, S., Nazaret, S., Philippot, L., Poly, F., Prosser, J. I.
    Ecological Monographs, vol. 75, pp. 65-80
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Influence of inorganic nitrogen-management regime on the diversity of nitrite oxidizing bacteria in agricultural grassland soils.

    Freitag, T. E., Chang, L., Clegg, C. D., Prosser, J. I.
    Applied and Environmental Microbiology, vol. 71, pp. 8323-8334
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Links between plant and rhizoplane bacterial communities in grassland soils characterized using molecular techniques.

    Nunan, N., Daniell, T. J., Singh, B. K., Papert, A. L., McNicol, J. W., Prosser, J. I.
    Applied and Environmental Microbiology, vol. 71, pp. 6784-6792
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Nitrification

    Prosser, J. I.
    The Encyclopedia of Soils in the Environment. Hillel, D., Hatfield, J. L. (eds.). Elsevier, pp. 31-39
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Nitrogen in Soils: Nitrification

    Prosser, J. I.
    Encyclopedia of Soils in the Environment. Elsevier Inc., pp. 31-39, 9 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • 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

    Whitby, C., Bailey, M., Whiteley, A., Murrell, C., Kilham, K., Prosser, J., Lappin-Scott, H.
    ASM News, vol. 71, pp. 169-173
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Carbon flow in an upland grassland: effect of liming on the flux of recently photosynthesised carbon to rhizosphere soil

    Rangel-Castro, J. I., Prosser, J. I., Scrimgeour, C. M., Smith, P., Ostle, N., Ineson, P., Meharg, A. A., Killham, K. S.
    Global Change Biology, vol. 10, no. 12, pp. 2100-2108
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Differential response of archaeal and bacterial communities to nitrogen inputs and pH changes in upland pasture rhizosphere soil

    Nicol, G. W., Webster, G., Glover, L. A., Prosser, J. I.
    Environmental Microbiology, vol. 6, no. 8, pp. 861-867
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Anoxic nitrification in marine sediments.

    Mortimer, R. J. G., Harris, S. J., Krom, M. D., Freitag, T. E., Prosser, J. I., Barnes, J., Anschutz, P., Hayes, P. J., Davies, I. M.
    Marine Ecology Progress Series, vol. 276, pp. 37-41
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Differences between betaproteobacterial ammonia-oxidizing communities in marine sediments and those in overlying water

    Freitag, T. E., Prosser, J. I.
    Applied and Environmental Microbiology, vol. 70, no. 6, pp. 3789-3793
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Spatial structure in soil chemical and microbiological properties in an upland grassland.

    Ritz, K., McNicol, J. W., Nunan, N., Grayston, S. J., Millard, P., Atkinson, D., Gollard, A., Glover, L. A., McCaig, A. E., Prosser, J. I.
    FEMS Microbiology Ecology, vol. 49, pp. 191-205
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Diversity of fungi in organic soils under a moorland--Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) gradient

    Anderson, I. C., Campbell, C. D., Prosser, J. I.
    Environmental Microbiology, vol. 5, no. 11, pp. 1121-1132
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Molecular analysis of methanogenic archaeal communities in managed and natural upland pasture soils

    Nicol, G. W., Glover, L. A., Prosser, J. I.
    Global Change Biology, vol. 9, no. 10, pp. 1451-1457
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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