Department of Earth and Environmental Science School of Human Settlements and Civil Engineering Xi’an Jiaotong University Xi’an 710049 China;
State Key Laboratory of Water Environment Simulation School of Environment Beijing Normal University Beijing 100875 China;
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering The University of New South Wales Sydney NSW 2052 Australia;
Department of Land Air and Water Resources University of California Davis CA 95616 USA;
Department of Civil Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Mumbai 400076 India;
National Engineering Laboratory for Applied Technology of Forestry and Ecology in South China Central South University of Forestry and Technology Changsha 410004 China;
Discharge–sediment relationship; Ecological restoration; Loess hilly region; Sediment load; Sediment rating parameters;