Prof. Silvio Ferraz is a Forest Engineer and received his PhD on Forest Ecosystem Conservation from the University of São Paulo. He currently is Full Professor at “Luiz de Queiroz” College of Agriculture (ESALQ), University of São Paulo (USP). His research is related to forest management and landscape conservation in order to conserve water and ecosystem services. He is the coordinator of Forest Hydrology Laboratory at ESALQ and scientific coordinator of Forested catchment environmental monitoring program (PROMAB) at Forest Science and Research Institute (IPEF) about 40 catchments in Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay. In Amazon, his studies are focused on land-use change effects on hydrological regime and biodiversity. Prof. Ferraz has published more than 130 scientific papers and his publications reflect his interest on watershed management, forest plantation hydrology, ecohydrology of forest restoration, landscape ecology, ecosystem services, conservation planning and stream ecology.