2026 Louis V. Verchot: Plant Science and Agronomy Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Plant Science and Agronomy	64	955	880	4	4	177	23924
Ecology and Evolution	72	1223	1166	1	1	238	26112

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Colombia Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Colombia Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Colombia Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Colombia Leader Award

Overview

Louis V. Verchot is affiliated with the Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical in Colombia. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, covering subfields such as ecology, global and planetary change, soil science, plant science, and economics and econometrics.

The main topics in Verchot's work include:

Peatlands and wetlands ecology
Fire effects on ecosystems
Soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics
Agriculture sustainability and environmental impact
Atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics
Conservation, biodiversity, and resource management
Rice cultivation and yield improvement

Verchot's recent papers illustrate a strong emphasis on ecosystem dynamics and environmental impact assessments. These include:

"The Unseen Effects of Deforestation: Biophysical Effects on Climate" (2022) published in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
"Impacts of land use and land cover dynamics on ecosystem services in the Yayo coffee forest biosphere reserve, southwestern Ethiopia" (2021) published in Ecosystem Services
"A map of global peatland extent created using machine learning (Peat-ML)" (2022) published in Geoscientific Model Development
"Spatial and temporal variability of soil N₂O and CH₄ fluxes along a degradation gradient in a palm swamp peat forest in the Peruvian Amazon" (2020) published in Global Change Biology
"Evaluating greenhouse gas mitigation through alternate wetting and drying irrigation in Colombian rice production" (2023) published in Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Verchot include:

Kristell Hergoualc'h
Javier M. Martín-López
Marcela Quintero
Joe R. Melton
Ed Chan

In terms of publication venues, Verchot has contributed works to:

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Sustainability Science
Biogeochemistry
SSRN Electronic Journal
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change

Verchot has also contributed to book publications with FAO eBooks, notably the title The State of the World's Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture 2021 - Systems at breaking point (2022), which has been cited extensively.

Best Publications

Jatropha bio-diesel production and use

Wouter Achten;Louis Verchot;Ywe Jan Franken;Erik Mathijs

1816
Citations
An assessment of deforestation and forest degradation drivers in developing countries

Noriko Hosonuma;Martin Herold;Veronique De Sy;Ruth S De Fries

1630
Citations
Climate change mitigation: a spatial analysis of global land suitability for Clean Development Mechanism afforestation and reforestation

Robert J. Zomer;Antonio Trabucco;Antonio Trabucco;Deborah A. Bossio;Louis V. Verchot

1270
Citations
Testing a Conceptual Model of Soil Emissions of Nitrous and Nitric Oxides

Eric A. Davidson;Michael Keller;Heather E. Erickson;Louis V. Verchot

1253
Citations
Effects of soil water content on soil respiration in forests and cattle pastures of eastern Amazonia

Eric A. Davidson;Louis V. Verchot;Ilse L. Ackerman

1209
Citations
Minimizing artifacts and biases in chamber-based measurements of soil respiration

E.A Davidson;K Savage;L.V Verchot;Rosa Navarro

1002
Citations
Climate change: linking adaptation and mitigation through agroforestry

Louis V. Verchot;Meine Van Noordwijk;Serigne Kandji;Thomas P. Tomich

1000
Citations
Analysing REDD+: challenges and choices.

A. Angelsen;M. Brockhaus;W.D. Sunderlin;L.V. Verchot

587
Citations
Reversibility of Soil Productivity Decline with Organic Matter of Differing Quality Along a Degradation Gradient

Joseph M. Kimetu;Johannes Lehmann;Solomon O. Ngoze;Daniel N. Mugendi

586
Citations
A global inventory of the soil CH4 sink

Laure Dutaur;Louis V. Verchot

563
Citations
The diversity of rural livelihoods and their influence on soil fertility in agricultural systems of East Africa - A typology of smallholder farms

Pablo A. Tittonell;Pablo A. Tittonell;A. Muriuki;Keith D. Shepherd;D. Mugendi

536
Citations
Global Sequestration Potential of Increased Organic Carbon in Cropland Soils

Robert J. Zomer;Deborah A. Bossio;Rolf Sommer;Louis V. Verchot

507
Citations
Reducing emissions from agriculture to meet the 2 °C target

Eva Wollenberg;Eva Wollenberg;Meryl Richards;Meryl Richards;Pete Smith;Petr Havlik

418
Citations
An expert system model for mapping tropical wetlands and peatlands reveals South America as the largest contributor

Thomas Gumbricht;Rosa Maria Roman-Cuesta;Rosa Maria Roman-Cuesta;Louis Verchot;Louis Verchot;Martin Herold

415
Citations
Land use change and biogeochemical controls of nitrogen oxide emissions from soils in eastern Amazonia

Louis V. Verchot;Eric A. Davidson;Henrique Cattânio;Ilse L. Ackerman

398
Citations
Major atmospheric emissions from peat fires in Southeast Asia during non-drought years: evidence from the 2013 Sumatran fires.

David L. A. Gaveau;Mohammad A. Salim;Kristell Hergoualc'h;Bruno Locatelli

386
Citations
Soil Microbial Community Response to Land Use Change in an Agricultural Landscape of Western Kenya

D Bossio;Martina S Girvan;L Verchot;Juliet Bullimore

360
Citations
Potential of agroforestry for carbon sequestration and mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions from soils in the tropics

Patrick K. Mutuo;G. Cadisch;A. Albrecht;C. A. Palm

347
Citations
Jatropha biodiesel fueling sustainability

Wouter Mj Achten;Erik Mathijs;Louis Verchot;Virendra P Singh

343
Citations
Opportunities for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in tropical peatlands

Daniel Murdiyarso;Kristell Hergoualc’h;Louis V. Verchot

343
Citations
Land-Use Change and Biogeochemical Controls of Methane Fluxes in Soils of Eastern Amazonia

Louis V. Verchot;Eric A. Davidson;J. Henrique Cattânio;Ilse L. Ackerman

310
Citations
Estimation of global biogeochemical controls and seasonality in soil methane consumption

C.S. Potter;E.A. Davidson;L.V. Verchot

288
Citations