Wei et al. (2000) even found that the highest runoff ratio and erosion rates occurred not in wet years, but in dry years in the loess region, which is ascribed to the high fluctuations and variabilities of temporal rainfall in semi-arid climates (Hogarth et al., 2004 and Nearing et al., 2005). Therefore, runoff and soil loss must be further examined on a storm event basis. The following are the supplementary data to this article. The event runoff and soil loss from SSP and LSP were listed in Supplementary Table 3. The average event runoff per unit area was 11.1, 11.5, 11.8, 12.2, 12.4, and 12.9 mm

on SSP, in comparison of 6.2, 4.9, 6.8, 5.8, 5.4, 5.0 mm on LSP at 5°, 10°, 15°, 20°, 25° and 30°, respectively. The higher runoff per event on SSP than on LSP was partly ascribed to the greater average event rainfall amount (33.7 mm) selleck kinase inhibitor RG7204 concentration over the SSP monitoring period than that (25.3 mm) over the LSP monitoring period. Correspondingly, the mean event runoff coefficient was higher on SSP than on LSP at all the slope angles, with 33.1, 34, 35, 36.4, 36.9, 38.2% on SSP, comparing 24.6, 19.2,26.6,22.8,21.5, 19.8% on

LSP at 5°, 10°, 15°, 20°, 25°, 30°, respectively. This was partly because the proportion of rainfall lost to the initial infiltration and ponding prior to runoff initiation was inversely related to the event rainfall amount. The following are the supplementary data to this article. At 5°, 10°, 15°, 20°, 25° and 30°, the mean event soil loss was 423.5, 503.3, 850, 1010.2, 1305.9, and 1815.9 g/m2 on SSP, in comparison of 464.1, 421.8, 550.4, 683.5, 647.6 and 1150.1 g/m2 on LSP. Event soil loss per unit area was higher on SSP than LSP at all the slope angles except 5°. However, the soil loss: runoff ratio was higher on LSP than on ifenprodil SSP, with 38.2, 43.8, 72.0, 82.8, 105.3, 140.8 on SSP, in comparison of 74.8, 86.1, 80.9, 117.8, 119.9, and 230 on LSP at 5°, 10°, 15°, 20°, 25° and 30°, respectively. This again suggests that the concentrated water

runoff on long slopes had greater erosive power and transport capacity than the runoff originating from short slopes. Both runoff and soil loss were greatly varied and skewed among storm events, and soil loss had overall greater variations than runoff on both SSP and LSP (Supplementary Table 3). To relate rainfall to event runoff and soil loss, we chose event rainfall amount and storm recurrence interval as rainfall indices and correlated each of them with soil loss and runoff separately using power, linear, polynomial, and exponential functions. It was found that recurrence interval was better than event rainfall amount as a rainfall index (Supplementary Table 4). Zhu et al. (1997) indicated that only rainfall amount with an intensity of over 0.2 mm per minute during a storm is effective in runoff generation.