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Eric P. Verrecchia

Eric P. Verrecchia

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Earth Science

D-Index
46
Citations
8515
World Ranking
4187
National Ranking
101

Overview

Eric P. Verrecchia is a researcher affiliated with the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, whose work focuses extensively on earth and planetary sciences as well as agricultural and biological sciences. Their research spans 27 publications in earth and planetary sciences and 16 publications in agricultural and biological sciences, indicating a broad engagement with these domains.

Their research interests cover multiple subfields including atmospheric science, earth-surface processes, soil science, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and ecology specifically. These areas highlight a multidisciplinary approach to studying geological and ecological phenomena.

Eric P. Verrecchia's main topics of study include geology and paleoclimatology research, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, geological formations and processes, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, biocrusts and microbial ecology, geochemistry and geologic mapping, and microbial community ecology and physiology.

Their recent papers illustrate the scope of their work:

  • Substrate availability and not thermal acclimation controls microbial temperature sensitivity response to long-term warming, 2022, Global Change Biology
  • What are the most crucial soil variables for predicting the distribution of mountain plant species? A comprehensive study in the Swiss Alps, 2020, Journal of Biogeography
  • Changes in topsoil organic carbon content in the Swiss leman region cropland from 1993 to present. Insights from large scale on-farm study, 2021, Geoderma
  • Impacts of fungus-growing termites on surficial geology parameters: A review, 2021, Earth-Science Reviews
  • On-Farm Relationships Between Agricultural Practices and Annual Changes in Organic Carbon Content at a Regional Scale, 2022, Frontiers in Environmental Science

The researcher has also contributed to the academic literature through a book published by the University of Milan titled A Visual Atlas for Soil Micromorphologists in 2021, which has been cited 50 times.

Frequent co-authors include David Sebag, James Irving, Thierry Adatte, Elisha Shemang, and Shlomy Vainer, reflecting collaborative research efforts.

Eric P. Verrecchia has published multiple articles in venues such as SSRN Electronic Journal, Médecine Nucléaire, Global Change Biology, Journal of Biogeography, and Geoderma, with SSRN Electronic Journal being the most common among them.

Best Publications

  • Calcium-mediated stabilisation of soil organic carbon

    Mike C. Rowley;Stéphanie Grand;Éric P. Verrecchia

  • Bacterially Induced Mineralization of Calcium Carbonate in Terrestrial Environments: The Role of Exopolysaccharides and Amino Acids

    Olivier Braissant;Guillaume Cailleau;Christophe Dupraz;Eric P. Verrecchia

  • Needle-fiber Calcite: A Critical Review and a Proposed Classification

    Eric P. Verrecchia;Karin E. Verrecchia

  • Lacustrine and palustrine carbonate petrography: an overview

    Pierre Freytet;Eric P. Verrecchia

  • Physical properties of the psammophile cryptogamic crust and their consequences to the water regime of sandy soils, north-western Negev Desert, Israel

    Eric Verrecchia;Aaron Yair;Giora J. Kidron;Karin Verrecchia

  • Small scale secondary CaCO3 accumulations in selected sections of the European loess belt. Morphological forms and potential for paleoenvironmental reconstruction

    J Becze-Deak;Roger Langohr;EP Verrecchia

  • Freshwater organisms that build stromatolites: a synopsis of biocrystallization by prokaryotic and eukaryotic algae

    Pierre Freytet;Eric P. Verrecchia

  • Spherulites in calcrete laminar crusts; biogenic CaCO 3 precipitation as a major contributor to crust formation

    Eric P. Verrecchia;Pierre Freytet;Karin E. Verrecchia;Jean-Louis Dumont

  • Is the contribution of bacteria to terrestrial carbon budget greatly underestimated

    Olivier Braissant;Eric P. Verrecchia;Michel Aragno

  • Monitoring organic matter dynamics in soil profiles by ‘Rock‐Eval pyrolysis’: bulk characterization and quantification of degradation

    D. Sebag;J. R. Disnar;B. Guillet;C. Di Giovanni

  • Role of Fungi in the Biomineralization of Calcite

    Saskia Bindschedler;Guillaume Cailleau;Eric Verrecchia

  • Biologically induced mineralization in the tree Milicia excelsa (Moraceae) : its causes and consequences to the environment

    Olivier Braissant;Guillaume Cailleau;Michel Aragno;Eric P. Verrecchia

  • The biogenic origin of needle fibre calcite

    Guillaume Cailleau;Eric P. Verrecchia;Olivier Braissant;Laurent Emmanuel

  • The oxalate–carbonate pathway in soil carbon storage: the role of fungi and oxalotrophic bacteria

    Eric P. Verrecchia;Olivier Braissant;Guillaume Cailleau

  • Translation of energy into morphology : Simulation of stromatolite morphospace using a stochastic model

    Christophe Dupraz;R. Pattisina;Eric P. Verrecchia

  • Dynamics of soil organic matter based on new Rock-Eval indices

    David Sebag;E.P. Verrecchia;L. Cécillon;T. Adatte

  • Direct evidence for the role of microbial community composition in the formation of soil organic matter composition and persistence

    Luiz A. Domeignoz-Horta;Luiz A. Domeignoz-Horta;Melissa Shinfuku;Pilar Junier;Simon Poirier

  • Fungi, bacteria and soil pH : the oxalate-carbonate pathway as a model for metabolic interaction

    Gaëtan Martin;Matteo Guggiari;Daniel Bravo;Jakob Zopfi;Jakob Zopfi

  • Microbially mediated carbonate precipitation in a hypersaline lake, Big Pond (Eleuthera, Bahamas)

    Christina Glunk;Christophe Dupraz;Olivier Braissant;Olivier Braissant;Kimberley L. Gallagher

  • Biologically induced accumulations of CaCO3 in orthox soils of Biga, Ivory Coast

    Guillaume Cailleau;Olivier Braissant;Christophe Dupraz;Michel Aragno

  • Fungi and Sediments

    Eric P. Verrecchia

  • Role of Calcium Oxalate Biomineralization by Fungi in the Formation of Calcretes: A Case Study from Nazareth, Israel

    Eric P. Verrecchia;Jean-Louis Dumont;Karin E. Verrecchia

Frequent Co-Authors

Jorge E. Spangenberg
Jorge E. Spangenberg University of Lausanne
Pascal Vittoz
Pascal Vittoz University of Lausanne
Thierry Adatte
Thierry Adatte University of Lausanne
Antoine Guisan
Antoine Guisan University of Lausanne
Mongi A. Abidi
Mongi A. Abidi University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Stuart N. Lane
Stuart N. Lane University of Lausanne
Pierre Deschamps
Pierre Deschamps Aix-Marseille University
Frédéric Herman
Frédéric Herman University of Lausanne
Nikolaus Gussone
Nikolaus Gussone University of Münster
Karl B. Föllmi
Karl B. Föllmi University of Lausanne

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