due to the effect of the mulching applied. Like the current study, Rodriguez (1997) reported similar results where the erosion rate increased sharply with time in the early stage and this was expedited during the transport limit regime. In other words, the sediment detachment rate was higher than the flow transport capacity. The duration of this regime was increased with an increasing mulch rate. Then, the erosion rates reached a peak value before declining to an almost steady rate because the erosion rate shifted from a transport limit regime to a detachment limit regime (Assouline and Ben-Hur, 2006).