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Professor James Prosser

Professor James Prosser
Professor James Prosser
Professor James Prosser

Emeritus Professor

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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

  • Niche breadth specialisation impacts ecological and evolutionary adaptation following environmental change

    Gubry-Rangin, C., Aigle, A., Herrera Alsina, L., Lancaster, L., Prosser, J.
    The ISME Journal, vol. 18, no. 1, wrae183
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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

    Lehtovirta-Morley, L. E., Ge, C., Ross, J., Yao, H., Hazard, C., Gubry-Rangin, C., Prosser, J., Nicol, G.
    International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, vol. 74, no. 9
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  • How and why in microbial ecology: an appeal for scientific aims, questions, hypotheses and theories

    Prosser, J.
    Environmental Microbiology, vol. 24, no. 11, pp. 4973-4980
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  • Chronic environmental perturbation influences microbial community assembly patterns

    Potts, L. D., Douglas, A., Perez Calderon, L. J., Witte, U., Prosser, J., Gubry-Rangin, C.
    Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 56, no. 4, pp. 2300-2311
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  • Revisiting plant biological nitrification inhibition efficiency using multiple archaeal and bacterial ammonia-oxidising cultures

    Bhambra, J. K., Wardak, D. L. R., Prosser, J. I., Gubry-Rangin, C.
    Biology and Fertility of Soils, vol. 58, pp. 241-249
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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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  • Niche breadth specialisation impacts ecological and evolutionary adaptation following environmental change

    Gubry-Rangin, C., Aigle, A., Herrera Alsina, L., Lancaster, L., Prosser, J.
    The ISME Journal, vol. 18, no. 1, wrae183
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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

    Lehtovirta-Morley, L. E., Ge, C., Ross, J., Yao, H., Hazard, C., Gubry-Rangin, C., Prosser, J., Nicol, G.
    International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, vol. 74, no. 9
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  • How and why in microbial ecology: an appeal for scientific aims, questions, hypotheses and theories

    Prosser, J.
    Environmental Microbiology, vol. 24, no. 11, pp. 4973-4980
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  • Chronic environmental perturbation influences microbial community assembly patterns

    Potts, L. D., Douglas, A., Perez Calderon, L. J., Witte, U., Prosser, J., Gubry-Rangin, C.
    Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 56, no. 4, pp. 2300-2311
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  • Revisiting plant biological nitrification inhibition efficiency using multiple archaeal and bacterial ammonia-oxidising cultures

    Bhambra, J. K., Wardak, D. L. R., Prosser, J. I., Gubry-Rangin, C.
    Biology and Fertility of Soils, vol. 58, pp. 241-249
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  • Preferential temperature and ammonia concentration for in-situ growth of Candidatus Nіtrоѕосоѕmісuѕ ammonia oxidising archaea

    Bello, M. O., Aigle, A., Meng, Y., Prosser, J. I., Gubry-Rangin, C.
    Soil Biology and Biochemistry, vol. 162, 108405
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  • Towards meaningful scales in ecosystem microbiome research

    Dini-Andreote, F., Kowalchuk, G. A., Prosser, J. I., Raaijmakers, J. M.
    Environmental Microbiology, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 1-4
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  • Experimental testing of hypotheses for temperature- and pH-based niche specialization of ammonia oxidizing archaea and bacteria

    Aigle, A., Gubry-Rangin, C., Thion, C., Estera-Molina, K., Richmond, H., Pett-Ridge, J., Firestone, M. K., Nicol, G., Prosser, J.
    Environmental Microbiology, vol. 22, no. 9, pp. 4032-4045
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  • Oxygen preference of deeply-rooted mesophilic thaumarchaeota in forest soil

    Biggs-Weber, E., Aigle, A., Prosser, J. I., Gubry-Rangin, C.
    Soil Biology and Biochemistry, vol. 148, 107848
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  • Differential Ecosystem Function Stability of Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea and Bacteria following Short-Term Environmental Perturbation

    Zhao, J., Meng, Y., Drewer, J., Skiba, U. M., Prosser, J. I., Gubry-Rangin, C.
    mSystems, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 1-14
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  • Conceptual challenges in microbial community ecology

    Prosser, J. I., Martiny, J. B. H.
    Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, vol. 375, no. 1798, 20190241
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  • Putting science back into microbial ecology: a question of approach

    Prosser, J. I.
    Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 375, no. 1798, pp. 20190240
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  • Selective inhibition of ammonia oxidising archaea by simvastatin stimulates growth of ammonia oxidising bacteria

    Zhao, J., Bello, M. O., Meng, Y., Prosser, J. I., Gubry-Rangin, C.
    Soil Biology and Biochemistry, vol. 141, 107673
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  • Nitrous oxide production by ammonia oxidizers: Physiological diversity, niche differentiation and potential mitigation strategies

    Prosser, J. I., Hink, L., Gubry-Rangin, C., Nicol, G. W.
    Global Change Biology, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 103-118
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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

    Aigle, A., Prosser, J. I., Gubry-Rangin, C.
    Environmental Microbiome, vol. 14, 3
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  • Genome Sequence of “Candidatus Nitrosocosmicus franklandus” C13, a Terrestrial Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaeon

    Nicol, G. W., Hink, L., Gubry-Rangin, C., Prosser, J. I., Lehtovirta-Morley, L. E.
    Microbiology Resource Announcements, vol. 8, no. 40, e00435-19
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  • Differential sensitivity of ammonia oxidising archaea and bacteria to matric and osmotic potential

    Bello, M. O., Thion, C., Gubry-Rangin, C., Prosser, J. I.
    Soil Biology and Biochemistry, vol. 129, pp. 184-190
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  • Approaches to understanding the ecology and evolution of understudied terrestrial archaeal ammonia-oxidisers

    Gubry-Rangin, C., Williams, W., Prosser, J. I.
    Emerging Topics in Life Sciences , vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 619-328
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  • Soil bacterial networks are less stable under drought than fungal networks

    de Vries, F. T., Griffiths, R. I., Bailey, M., Craig, H., Girlanda, M., Gweon, H. S., Hallin, S., Kaisermann, A., Keith, A. M., Kretzschmar, M., Lemanceau, P., Lumini, E., Mason, K. E., Oliver, A., Ostle, N., Prosser, J. I., Thion, C., Thomson, B., Bardgett, R. D.
    Nature Communications, vol. 9, 3033
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  • Physiological models in microbiology: Volume II

    Bazin, M. J., Prosser, J. I.
    CRC Press. 159 pages
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  • The consequences of niche and physiological differentiation of archaeal and bacterial ammonia oxidisers for nitrous oxide emissions

    Hink, L., Gubry-Rangin, C., Nicol, G. W., Prosser, J. I.
    The ISME Journal, vol. 12, pp. 1084-1093
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  • Ammonia-oxidising archaea living at low pH: Insights from comparative genomics

    Herbold, C. W., Lehtovirta-Morley, L. E., Jung, M., Jehmlich, N., Hausmann, B., Han, P., Loy, A., Pester, M., Sayavedra-Soto, L. A., Rhee, S., Prosser, J. I., Nicol, G. W., Wagner, M., Gubry-Rangin, C.
    Environmental Microbiology, vol. 19, no. 12, pp. 4939-4952
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  • Archaea produce lower yields of N2O than bacteria during aerobic ammonia oxidation in soil

    Hink, L., Nicol, G. W., Prosser, J. I.
    Environmental Microbiology, vol. 19, no. 12, pp. 4829-4837
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  • Kinetics of NH3-oxidation, NO-turnover, N2O-production and electron flow during oxygen depletion in model bacterial and archaeal ammonia oxidisers

    Hink, L., Lycus, P., Gubry-Rangin, C., Frostegård, ?., Nicol, G. W., Prosser, J. I., Bakken, L. R.
    Environmental Microbiology, vol. 19, no. 12, pp. 4882-4896
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  • Abiotic Conversion of Extracellular NH2OH Contributes to N2O Emission during Ammonia Oxidation

    Liu, S., Han, P., Hink, L., Prosser, J. I., Wagner, M., Bruggemann, N.
    Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 51, no. 22, pp. 13122–13132
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  • Links between seawater flooding, soil ammonia oxidiser communities and their response to changes in salinity

    Nacke, H., Schöning, I., Schindler, M., Schrumpf, M., Daniel, R., Nicol, G. W., Prosser, J. I.
    FEMS Microbiology Ecology, vol. 93, no. 11, pp. 1-13
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  • Ammonia oxidisers in a non-nitrifying Brazilian savanna soil

    Catão, E., Thion, C., Kruger, R., Prosser, J. I.
    FEMS Microbiology Ecology, vol. 93, no. 11, fix122
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  • Spotlight on… Jim Prosser

    Prosser, J. I.
    FEMS Microbiology Letters, vol. 18, no. 2, fnx183
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  • Chemotaxonomic characterisation of the thaumarchaeal lipidome

    Elling, F. J., Könneke, M., Nicol, G. W., Stieglmeier, M., Bayer, B., Spieck, E., de la Torre, J. R., Becker, K. W., Thomm, M., Prosser, J. I., Herndl, G. J., Schleper, C., Hinrichs, K.
    Environmental Microbiology, vol. 19, no. 7, pp. 2681-2700
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  • Editorial: FEMS Letters: investing in science for 40 years

    Cotton, C. M., Prosser, J. I.
    FEMS Microbiology Letters, vol. 364, no. 10, fnx095
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  • Advances in the study of the microbiome

    Prosser, J. I.
    Microbiology Today, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 95-96
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  • Temperature responses of soil ammonia-oxidising archaea depend on pH

    Gubry-Rangin, C., Novotnik, B., Mandič-Mulec, I., Nicol, G. W., Prosser, J. I.
    Soil Biology and Biochemistry, vol. 106, pp. 61-68
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  • The Role of Microbial Community Composition in Controlling Soil Respiration Responses to Temperature

    Auffret, M. D., Karhu, K., Khachane, A., Dungait, J. A. J., Fraser, F., Hopkins, D. W., Wookey, P. A., Singh, B. K., Freitag, T., Hartley, I. P., Prosser, J. I.
    PloS ONE, vol. 11, no. 10, e0165448
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  • Candidatus Nitrosotalea

    Prosser, J. I., Nicol, G. W.
    Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. Whitman, P. W. B. (ed.). Wiley-Blackwell
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  • Candidatus Nitrosotaleaceae

    Prosser, J. I., Nicol, G. W.
    Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. Whitman, P. W. B. (ed.). Wiley-Blackwell
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  • Candidatus Nitrosotaleales

    Prosser, J. I., Nicol, G. W.
    Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. Whitman, P. W. B. (ed.). Wiley-Blackwell
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  • Ecology of Archaea

    Nicol, G. W., Prosser, J. I.
    Oxford Bibliographies in Ecology. Gibson, D. (ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.
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  • Stream drying drives microbial ammonia oxidation and first-flush nitrate export

    Merbt, S. N., Proia, L., Prosser, J. I., Marti, E., Casamayor, E. O., von Schiller, D.
    Ecology, vol. 97, no. 9, pp. 2192-2198
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  • A timely reminder of technical limitations

    Prosser, J. I.
    Microbial Biotechnology, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 435
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  • Plant nitrogen-use strategy as a driver of rhizosphere archaeal and bacterial ammonia oxidiser abundance

    Thion, C. E., Poirel, J. D., Cornulier, T., De Vries, F. T., Bardgett, R. D., Prosser, J. I.
    FEMS Microbiology Ecology, vol. 92, no. 7, fiw091
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  • Identifying Potential Mechanisms Enabling Acidophily in the Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaeon “Candidatus Nitrosotalea devanaterra”

    Lehtovirta-Morley, L. E., Sayavedra-Soto, L. A., Gallois, N., Schouten, S., Stein, L. Y., Prosser, J. I., Nicol, G. W.
    Applied and Environmental Microbiology, vol. 82, no. 9, pp. 2608-2619
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  • Isolation of 'Candidatus Nitrosocosmicus franklandus', a novel ureolytic soil archaeal ammonia oxidiser with tolerance to high ammonia concentration

    Lehtovirta-Morley, L. E., Ross, J., Hink, L., Weber, E. B., Gubry-Rangin, C., Thion, C., Prosser, J. I., Nicol, G. W.
    FEMS Microbiology Ecology, vol. 92, no. 5, pp. 1-10
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  • Short-term impact of soybean management on ammonia oxidizers in a Brazilian savanna under restoration as revealed by coupling different techniques

    Catão, E. C. P., Lopes, F. A. C., Rubini, M. R., Nardoto, G. B., Prosser, J. I., Krüger, R. H.
    Biology and Fertility of Soils, vol. 52, no. 3, pp. 401-412
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  • Microbes as engines of ecosystem function: When does community structure enhance predictions of ecosystem processes?

    Graham, E. B., Knelman, J. E., Schindlbacher, A., Siciliano, S., Breulmann, M., Yannarell, A., Beman, J. M., Abell, G., Philippot, L., Prosser, J., Foulquier, A., Yuste, J. C., Glanville, H. C., Jones, D. L., Angel, R., Salminen, J., Newton, R. J., Bürgmann, H., Ingram, L. J., Hamer, U., Siljanen, H. M. P., Peltoniemi, K., Potthast, K., Bañeras, L., Hartmann, M., Banerjee, S., Yu, R., Nogaro, G., Richter, A., Koranda, M., Castle, S. C., Goberna, M., Song, B., Chatterjee, A., Nunes, O. C., Lopes, A. R., Cao, Y., Kaisermann, A., Hallin, S., Strickland, M. S., Garcia-Pausas, J., Barba, J., Kang, H., Isobe, K., Papaspyrou, S., Pastorelli, R., Lagomarsino, A., Lindström, E. S., Basiliko, N., Nemergut, D. R.
    Frontiers in Microbiology, vol. 7, pp. 1-10
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  • Phylogenetic congruence and ecological coherence in terrestrial Thaumarchaeota

    Oton, E. V., Quince, C., Nicol, G. W., Prosser, J. I., Gubry-Rangin, C.
    The ISME Journal, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 85-96
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  • Coupling of diversification and pH adaptation during the evolution of terrestrial Thaumarchaeota

    Gubry-Rangin, C., Kratsch, C., Williams, T. A., McHardy, A. C., Embley, T. M., Prosser, J. I., MacQueen, D. J.
    PNAS, vol. 112, no. 30, pp. 9370-9375
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  • Dispersing misconceptions and identifying opportunities for the use of 'omics' in soil microbial ecology

    Prosser, J. I.
    Nature Reviews Microbiology, vol. 13, no. 7, pp. 439-446
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  • pH as a Driver for Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea in Forest Soils

    Stempfhuber, B., Engel, M., Fischer, D., Neskovic-Prit, G., Wubet, T., Schöning, I., Gubry-Rangin, C., Kublik, S., Schloter-Hai, B., Rattei, T., Welzl, G., Nicol, G. W., Schrumpf, M., Buscot, F., Prosser, J. I., Schloter, M.
    Microbial Ecology, vol. 69, no. 4, pp. 879-883
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  • Ammonia oxidation is not required for growth of Group 1.1c soil Thaumarchaeota

    Weber, E. B., Lehtovirta-Morley, L. E., Prosser, J. I., Gubry-Rangin, C.
    FEMS Microbiology Ecology, vol. 91, no. 3, fiv001
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  • Differential response of non-adapted ammonia oxidising archaea and bacteria to drying rewetting stress

    Thion, C., Prosser, J. I.
    FEMS Microbiology Ecology, vol. 90, no. 2, pp. 380-389
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