THE FORCED PROCESS OF SOIL-EROSION IN DEVELOPED AREAS OF LAND IN THE BERCHTESGADEN NATIONAL-PARK - CAUSES AND EFFECTS AS SHOWN BY THE EXAMPLE OF THE JENNER AREA

In the past forty years there has been a steep increase in the extent of the soil damage caused by the forced process of soil erosion in developed areas of land in the Berchtesgaden National Park. Through a suitably adapted utilization, alpine-pasture fanning was at one rime responsible for stabilising this artificially developed ecosystem caused by land clearance and thus safeguarding sustained productivity, but is now no longer capable of fulfilling this function. This in Nm has had the effect of increasing the erosion of these for the most part, quasi-natural geomorphological processes. The causes and effects of this development, still relevant today, will be demonstrated using the example of the Jenner area of the Berchtesgaden National Park.