62082 20190709135503.0 doi 10.18172/cig.3164 sideral 101103 ART-2017-101103 eng Regüés, D. Analysing the effect of land use and vegetation cover on soil infiltration in three contrasting environments in Northeast Spain 2017 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted This study presents a joint analysis of the information from 195 field infiltration experiments, using double ring devices. The experiments were carried out in 20 contrasting types of land use, distributed across three geographic contexts (coast of NE Catalonia, an area of gentle relief in the central Ebro Valley and mid-height mountains from the southern range of the Central Pyrenees). The objective of this research was to determine the most important factors explaining infiltration variability: land use, type of vegetation cover, soil and bedrock characteristics, soil moisture and altitude. Data analysis was performed by comparing variables using statistical methods: bivariate lineal correlation, ANOVA and Bonferroni multiple comparison tests. Results show that infiltration variability is the most important factor and is mainly linked to land use, followed by vegetation type. In contrast, soil moisture did not show any relation with infiltration. The interpretation of these results suggests that the characteristics of the study areas are more decisive than temporal variations of soil water content, although humidity can influence land use to a greater or lesser degree. The validity of the results obtained in this study is supported by the wide range of land use and land cover analysed, located in areas with different geographical and geological characteristics. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICYT/CGL2007-66644-C04-01-HID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/CGL2015-65569-R info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by-nc-nd http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ 0.865 2017 Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) 2017 Q1 Geography, Planning and Development 2017 Q1 Environmental Science (miscellaneous) 2017 Q1 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion (orcid)0000-0002-1006-5030 Badía, D. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-6680-7833 Echeverría, M.T. Universidad de Zaragoza Gispert, M. Lana-Renault, N. (orcid)0000-0002-9158-4376 León, J. (orcid)0000-0002-4651-7828 Nadal-Romero, E. Universidad de Zaragoza Pardini, G. Serrano-Muela, P. 3006 430 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Geograf. Ordenac.Territ. Área Geografía Física 5011 240 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. CC.Agrar.y Medio Natural Área Edafología y Quím.Agríco. 43, 1 (2017), 141-169 Cuad. investig. geogr. Geographical Research Letters 0211-6820 2633254 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/62082/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 74375 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/62082/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:62082 articulos driver 2019-07-09-11:47:20 ARTICLE