Human impact on Subatlantic slopewash processes and landform development at Lake Jasień (northern Poland)

Faster denudation in the landform catchments and accumulation on their bottoms were caused by deforestation of those areas and using them as farmland, as indicated by old cartographic materials. The cooling and humidification of the climate during the Little Ice Age may also have contributed to the acceleration of the agrotechnical denudation. In areas unaffected by deforestation, no noticeable traces have been found of active denudation processes during the Subatlantic. This may suggest that hillslope processes did not play a major role in lowland forested areas of the Temperate Zone.