Souza, Deivison Venicio creator Ferrari, Linamara Smaniotto creator Coutinho, Vinícius Morais creator Santos, Joielan Xipaia creator Péllico Netto, Sylvio creator Sanquetta, Carlos Roberto creator Corte, Ana Paula Dalla creator text periodical abstract or summary bl. continuing eng Abstract We investigated the spatial distribution of population data and diameter classes and modeled the diameter structure of Vouacapoua americana Aubl. (Acapu) trees in a community forest management area. A forest census of trees with diameters ≥ 33 cm was carried out in the 2015 Annual Production Unit (APU-2015). Ripley’s univariate K function and the global Moran’s index were used to describe spatial autocorrelation. Three harvest intensities (50, 70, and 80%) were simulated for the potential trees. The Weibull (3P) function provided the best performance to describe the diameter distribution of the original tree population, as well as in the harvested 50 and 70% intensities. In general, the spatial pattern of V. americana was aggregated. However, other natural factors, as population size, dynamics, geographic distribution, should be used as indicators for forest management and conservation of the specie. Keywords: conservation of species, dense tropical forest, Vouacapoua americana, Weibull function. Publicação on-line; 33 ref.; 3 tables; 4 illus.; Summary (En) CONSERVAÇÃO FLORESTA TROPICAL VOUACAPOUA AMERICANA Rio de Janeiro-RJ Instituto de Florestas - UFRRJ 1994 2025-0459 1415-0980 / ISSN 2179-8087 0nline BR2026001938 v. 28(1) p. 1-13; (2021) https://www.scielo.br/j/floram/a/MFr5vjYfdztSmFPgsnSxkBf/?format=pdf&lang=en https://www.scielo.br/j/floram/a/MFr5vjYfdztSmFPgsnSxkBf/?format=pdf&lang=en BR-BrBNA 260615 20260615103237.0 eng