Dynamics of growth and production of individual trees in managed tropical forests: a review

Abstract

In 1969, the growth and production modeling technique was applied for the first time by Moser and Hall to heterogeneous and multianeus forests. Growth and production models, especially at the tree level, are one of the tools that can guide long-term forest planning, technically subsidizing the selection of species for exploitation or protection and prescription of silvicultural treatments that are more appropriate for the sustainability of tropical forest ecosystems. However, currently few works use them as technical and economic subsidy in silvicultural decisions regarding management because they are unaware of the operational viability of this technique. Therefore, this work aims to present a bibliographic review on modeling the growth and production of individual trees applied to tropical forests, highlighting the main advances related to the use of this approach from its initial applications to the present day.