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18510
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2377
National Ranking
283

Overview

James A. Harris is affiliated with Cranfield University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a substantial focus on specialized subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science, Ecology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Soil Science.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics such as Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Urban Green Space and Health, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Ecosystem Dynamics and Resilience, Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis, and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies.

Frequent co-authors in their collaborative research include Ron Corstanje, Mark Pawlett, Joanna Zawadzka, Tom Sizmur, and Ian M. Clark. This highlights a network of partnerships contributing to interdisciplinary research outputs.

James A. Harris has published multiple articles in various academic venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Landscape Ecology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Applied Soil Ecology
  • European Journal of Soil Science
  • Ecological Engineering

Selected recent papers exemplify the themes and the scope of their research:

  • "Bundling ecosystem services at a high resolution in the UK: trade-offs and synergies in urban landscapes," 2021, Landscape Ecology
  • "Future restoration should enhance ecological complexity and emergent properties at multiple scales," 2021, Ecography
  • "Assessment of heat mitigation capacity of urban greenspaces with the use of InVEST urban cooling model, verified with day-time land surface temperature data," 2021, Landscape and Urban Planning
  • "Understanding the importance of landscape configuration on ecosystem service bundles at a high resolution in urban landscapes in the UK," 2021, Landscape Ecology
  • "The impact of anaerobic digestate on soil life: A review," 2023, Applied Soil Ecology

Their publications reveal an engagement with both landscape-scale environmental dynamics and soil ecological processes, frequently addressing how ecosystem services can be optimized and measured, especially in urban or managed landscapes.

This research profile demonstrates a consistent interest in the interactions between land use, ecosystem functions, and sustainability, particularly through empirical approaches and model-based validation methods.

Best Publications

  • Novel ecosystems: implications for conservation and restoration

    Richard J. Hobbs;Eric Higgs;James A. Harris

  • Restoration Ecology: Repairing the Earth's Ecosystems in the New Millennium

    R. J. Hobbs;J. A. Harris

  • Using ecological diversity measures with bacterial communities

    Tom C.J. Hill;Kerry A. Walsh;James A. Harris;Bruce F. Moffett

  • Ecological Restoration and Global Climate Change

    James A. Harris;Richard J. Hobbs;Eric Higgs;James Aronson

  • Candidatus "Scalindua brodae", sp. nov., Candidatus "Scalindua wagneri", sp. nov., two new species of anaerobic ammonium oxidizing bacteria.

    Markus Schmid;Kerry Walsh;Rick Webb;W Irene C Rijpstra

  • Soil microbial communities and restoration ecology: facilitators or followers?

    Jim Harris

  • Evidence of a feedback mechanism limiting plant response to elevated carbon dioxide

    S. Díaz;J. P. Grime;J. Harris;E. McPherson

  • Managing the whole landscape: historical, hybrid, and novel ecosystems

    Richard J Hobbs;Eric Higgs;Carol M Hall;Peter Bridgewater

  • The changing role of history in restoration ecology

    Eric Higgs;Donald A Falk;Anita Guerrini;Marcus Hall

  • Resilience in ecology: Abstraction, distraction, or where the action is?

    Rachel J. Standish;Richard J. Hobbs;Margaret M. Mayfield;Brandon T. Bestelmeyer

  • Development of a physiological approach to measuring the catabolic diversity of soil microbial communities

    B.P. Degens;J.A. Harris

  • Measurements of the soil microbial community for estimating the success of restoration

    J. A. Harris

  • Selecting biological indicators for monitoring soils: A framework for balancing scientific and technical opinion to assist policy development

    Karl Ritz;Helaina I.J. Black;Colin D. Campbell;Jim A. Harris

  • National Spatial Biodiversity Assessment 2004: priorities for biodiversity conservation in South Africa.

    A. Driver;K. Maze;M. Rouget;A. T. Lombard

  • Zinc contamination decreases the bacterial diversity of agricultural soil

    Bruce F. Moffett;Fiona A. Nicholson;Nnanna C. Uwakwe;Brian J. Chambers

  • Impact of rapid urban expansion on green space structure

    Amal Najihah M. Nor;Amal Najihah M. Nor;Ronald Corstanje;Jim A. Harris;Tim Brewer

  • The total costs of soil degradation in England and Wales

    A.R. Graves;J. Morris;L.K. Deeks;R.J. Rickson

  • Shifts in the microbial community in rhizosphere and non-rhizosphere soils during the growth of Agrostis stolonifera

    J. Steer;J.A. Harris

  • Opportunities and challenges for ecological restoration within REDD

    Sasha Alexander;Cara R. Nelson;James Aronson;James Aronson;David Lamb

  • Ecological Restoration: State of the Art or State of the Science?

    R. van Diggelen;Ab P. Grootjans;J. A. Harris

  • Microbial diversity affects self-organization of the soil-microbe system with consequences for function

    John W Crawford;Lewis Deacon;Dmitri Grinev;James A Harris

Frequent Co-Authors

Karl Ritz
Karl Ritz University of Nottingham
Richard J. Hobbs
Richard J. Hobbs University of Western Australia
Andrew P. Whitmore
Andrew P. Whitmore Rothamsted Research
Colin Campbell
Colin Campbell University of York
Rachel Creamer
Rachel Creamer Wageningen University & Research
Jan Frouz
Jan Frouz Charles University
Rachel J. Standish
Rachel J. Standish Murdoch University
Iain M. Young
Iain M. Young King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Ralf Seppelt
Ralf Seppelt Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Philip H. Warren
Philip H. Warren University of Sheffield

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