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CLIMATICALLY DETERMINED MORPHODYNAMIC PROCESSES IN THE VALLEY SYSTEM OF THE HIGH TATRAS (SLOVAKIA)
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Declared knowledge about climate change and related meteorological anomalies have a direct or indirect influence on the current evolution of relief, soils, hydrological regime, vegetation, and from animals to ecosystems. Changes are occurring in the conditions of the high mountain landscape, which we understand as part of natural evolution, but it is evident that their genesis has both global and local causes. The valley systems of the northeastern part of the High Tatras exhibit several processes that indicate changing climate conditions, especially in the context of their frequency and randomness of occurrence. Over the last twenty years, several manifestations of abrupt processes have occurred in the High Tatras that can be considered a result of a changing climate. In particular, these have been water-gravity processes associated with intense rainfall, practically from the Montane to the Alpine vegetation stage. Flood activity in the valleys, both on the northern and the southern sides of the mountains, is also linked to precipitation anomalies. Avalanches and, indirectly, landslides and destruction of the soil-vegetation cover are associated with the effects of sudden snowmelt. The effects of windstorms, particularly on the destruction of forest cover, which in turn triggers the development of slope-gravity processes, constitute a relatively separate chapter. The aim of this paper is to show the connection between these difficult to predict processes and the current climate evolution in the conditions of the highest mountain range of the Western Carpathians.
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