infiltrability

English

Noun

infiltrability (countable and uncountable, plural infiltrabilities)

1. The ability (of a soil etc.) to undergo infiltration (of water).
   • 2015 July 25, “Response of Surface Soil Hydrology to the Micro-Pattern of Bio-Crust in a Dry-Land Loess Environment, China”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     Our experiments re-confirmed that mosses and lichens functioned better than PCs by decreasing soil buck density, increasing water holding capacity and infiltrability.

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