Measurement of soil erosion and its controlling factors can be conducted under field or

laboratory conditions using permanent or ephemeral experimental plots. Considering a

study area in Resket village arable lands, in Northern Iran, event based runoff and sediment

plot data were compared under different land management scenarios. Towards this attempt,

10 plots having 5 different treatments and 2 replicates were considered. These treatments

were strip cropping, contour tillage, terracing and top down plowing tillage systems and notillage

control plot. The results of 9 rainfall events led to runoff generation and sediment

yield showed that the maximum of sediment yield derived from top down plowing tillage

of 156 g/m2. So, terrace tillage scenario had minimum rate sediment yield of 6.2 g/m2. The

maximum and minimum runoff coefficient was also observed in no-tillage plot (%21.24)

and terracing scenario (%7.08), respectively. It was also found that plowing, crop establishment

and crop harvesting stages are the most sensitive phases in sediment yield.