Commercial plantations of
Ocotea porosa
available for studying are scarce and therefore should be used
as a source of information to establish the potential for management of the species in plantations, even if
these evaluations were not been held along the stand development. The recovery of the historical growth
of these stands to optimize the management plans is possible by dendrochronology and by the analysis of
morphometric and dendrometric data. The aim of this study was to use stand analysis tools, combined with
the dendrochronological studies, to recover and to systematize the development of unmanaged stands. The
study was conducted in an unmanaged stand of
Ocotea porosa, with with 44 years of age in Rio Negro, PR
state, in a UFPR research station. Growth inferences recovered by dendrochronology and the competition by
the application of methodologies such as rate of coverage and crown cover rate showed consistent results in
the analysis of population, indicating the need for a first thinning near 12 years old. Due to the small number of
sampled trees, the results do not allow any definitive generalization. However, they are consistent to establish an
analysis protocol for unmanaged stands of
Ocotea porosa or other species.
