Jose Luiz Stape received the Ph.D. degree in forest ecology from Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA, in 2002. He is a Permanent Graduate Professor of Forest Ecophysiology with Sao Paulo State University (UNESP, Brazil), Sao Paulo, Brazil. He was with the University of Sao Paulo, and with the North Carolina State University and across many countries and companies, looking to improve silvicultural recommendations for the sustainability of forest plantations including: clonal deployment; site-preparation; nutrition and spacing. To better evaluate the factors limiting forest productivity and controlling C allocation, he coordinated the establishment, with other scientists, of four large Eucalyptus and Pine cooperative research programs in Brazil via IPEF (BEPP, Eucflux, TECHS and PPPIB) and a research network at Suzano company (G2M2P2). Nowadays the use of remote sensing to improve monitoring, management and modeling planted forests has been a main focus of his research.