“…Vegetative filter strips (VFS) play an important role in reducing the impact energy of rainfall, reducing the detachment capacity of overland flow, trapping sediment, and controlling non‐point source pollution (D. Pan et al, 2018; Wainwright et al, 2008; F. Yang, Yang, Li, & Cao, 2015). Therefore, VFS have been widely used as best management practices (Blanco‐Canqui, Gantzer, Anderson, Alberts, & Thompson, 2004; Carluer, Lauvernet, Noll, & Munoz‐Carpena, 2017; Reichenberger, Sur, Kley, Sittig, & Multsch, 2019). The sediment‐trapping effect in a VFS is mainly caused by the resistances of vegetation stems, litter, bed micro‐topography, and grain, which consume energy and reduce the sediment transport capacity of overland flow (Comiti, Cadol, & Wohl, 2009; Luo, Pan, & Liu, 2020a; C. Pan, Ma, Wainwright, & Shangguan, 2016; Prosser, Dietrich, & Stevenson, 1995).…”