Interactive effects of three ecosystem engineers on infiltration in a semi-arid Mediterranean grassland

Agriculture & Biology

• ecosystem engineers 100%
• infiltration (hydrology) 79%
• biological soil crusts 78%
• Stipa 62%
• grasslands 59%
• rabbits 28%
• macropores 24%
• structural equation modeling 23%
• engineers 18%
• permeameters 15%
• Stipa tenacissima 13%
• micropores 11%
• Oryctolagus cuniculus 10%
• water flow 9%
• dry environmental conditions 9%
• lichens 8%
• mosses and liverworts 8%
• water 7%
• vegetation 6%
• soil 4%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• soil crust 68%
• grassland 56%
• infiltration 56%
• ecosystem 40%
• macropore 19%
• effect 15%
• crust 12%
• disturbance 11%
• permeameter 11%
• arid environment 10%
• lichen 9%
• moss 9%
• water flow 7%
• modeling 7%
• water 5%
• vegetation 5%
• matrix 5%
• soil 3%

Chemical Compounds

• Ecosystem 81%
• Soil 57%
• Tension 18%
• Flow 12%
• Pore 6%
• Environment 5%
• Time 3%
• Surface 3%