NATURAL ABIOTIC STRESS FACTORS

Natural stress factors can be understood as brokenly operating impulse s in landscape, arising in consequence of natural development of plane tary structures. On the base of the rise and manifestation it is possi ble to divide them to endogenous and exogenous stress factors. The kno wledge of these factors is very important because their activization m ay be unexpected and they can call up destructive changes of landscape ecosystems. The most widened natural stress factors in Slovakia are s lope motions, which cover approximately one third of the whole territo ry, wind and water erosion and soil confinement, which are most freque nt in the south and east parts of Slovakia.