Water erosion is associated with soil degradation, mainly with the removal of soil particles, their downstream transport as runoff, and, at the end, the accumulation of the carried material in new sites (Polykretis et al. 2023). Humic horizons are reduced and often already removed, and transported material, rich in an organic carbon (OC), covers an original topsoil in the concave sites, resulting in the change of landscape structure (Zádorová & Penížek 2018;Juřicová et al. 2022). Human activities, especially intensive agriculture in the case of Chernozems, rapidly accelerate soil erosion (Borrelli et al. 2017). The intensity of the soil particle transport is negatively correlated with the rate of infiltration, while this