Dear Editors and Reviewers:

Thank you very much for your attention and the reviewers’ evaluation and comments on our paper “Direct and indirect effects of rainfall and vegetation coverage on runoff, soil loss, and nutrient loss in semi-humid climate ” (HYP-20-0560). Those comments are all valuable and very helpful for revising and improving our paper, as well as the important guiding significance to our researches. We have studied comments carefully and have made correction which we hope meet with approval. We invite a native English scientist of relative research to polish and edit our wording and language, the details of the changes can be found in the manuscript. Besides, our current manuscript followed the journal formatting guidelines of Hydrological Processes . We hope the latest version of the manuscript could meet the journal’s standard. Revised portion are marked in red throughout the revised manuscript. The main corrections in the paper and the Responses to the reviewer’s comments are as flowing:

NOTE: All the Page and Line numbers where revisions were made refer to the Manuscript and Highlight with marked changes (Manuscript (revised version).pdf and (Graphical abstract (revised version).docx). The Manuscript_Clean Version was the same version of the Manuscript (revised version) with cleaned from all the marks.