with relatively high soil moisture content resulting from
monsoonal rains. For this reason, a value of 1 was also
assigned to the SM subfactor. Using over 200 soil-loss ratios
measured from 30 runoff-erosion plots under both natural and
simulated rainfall events in the TGA, Du and Shi (1994)
established relationships between soil-loss ratios and canopycover
and surface-cover subfactors. The cover and
management factor (C) of the RUSLE expressed as a function
of canopy/surface-cover (c) in % is as follow: