The terrestrial monitoring of forests in the Czech Republic is based on the harmonized methodology of International Co-operative Programme on Assessment and Monitoring of Air Pollution Effects on Forests (UNEP/ECE) and consists of three parts
: (a) national network of permanent monitoring plots (16 x 16 km), (b) regional intensive monitoring (network 1 x 1 km in selected areas), (c) set of permanent research plots established for the purposes of forest inventory and management planning. - (L'A.).