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Table captions
Table1. Distribution of vegetation cover factor classes in the Ben Ahmed
Basin
Table 2. The erosivity index of the rainfall of Ben Ahmed station
Table 3. Spatial distribution of K factor in the study area
Table 4. Spatial distribution of soil loss
Table 1