Meet the editors

Manuel T. Oliveira is a retired professor in the Department of Agronomy, Universidade Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD), Portugal, specializing in soil science and viticulture. He was previously head of the Department of Agronomy and a member of the scientific council of UTAD. He was an invited researcher at Cornell University (USA), Catholic University of Santiago (Chile), and Universidad de La Rioja (Spain). He is a member

of the editorial council of *Plant and Soils* and a regular referee for *Sustainable Agriculture Research* and *Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment*. He is a member of the Horticultural Society of Portugal, the Portuguese Society of Agricultural Science, and the Portuguese Association for National Defense.

Anabela Fernandes-Silva obtained a Ph.D. from Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD), Portugal, in 2008. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Agronomy, UTAD, and a full member of the Centre for the Research and Technology of Agro-Environmental and Biological Sciences (CITAB). She specializes in agrometeorology, crops water needs, sap flow, evapotranspiration, environmental stress, and oliviculture. Her

research interests include crop response to water deficit, water resources management, sustainable agriculture, crops and fruit production response to climate change, and olives and olive oil composition and quality. She is a member of the Portuguese Horticulture Society and the International Society of Horticulture Science. Dr. Fernandes-Silva leads two national research projects and is a member of the investigation team of eighteen others. She is a frequent reviewer for several journals and an editorial board member of the *Agronomy Journal*. She is also a scientific supervisor for several undergraduate and post-graduate students.
