Meet the editors

Ana Cristina Gonçalves is an Assistant Professor with Habilitation in the Department of Rural Engineering, University of Évora, Portugal, and a researcher at the Mediterranean Institute for Agriculture, Environment and Development (MED). She holds a Ph.D. in Forestry. Dr. Gonçalves has authored more than 100 publications and participated in 20 research projects. Her research is focused on silviculture and modelling in pure, mixed,

and even-aged and uneven-aged stands, and forest management and planning integrated into a GIS environment.

Teresa Fidalgo Fonseca has a Ph.D. in Forestry Sciences from the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD), Portugal. She works at UTAD where she directs courses in Dendrometry, Forest Inventory, Forest Management, and Forest Resource Modelling in graduate and post-graduate programs. She conducts research in the scientific domains of her specialty areas, being the author of scientific and technical publications of internation-

al dissemination. She is a member of the Forest Research Centre, School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon and is a modeler at the CAPSIS community. She is Deputy of Division 1 (Silviculture) of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) and coordinator of the research unit 1.01.10 Ecology and silviculture of pine IUFRO.
