Dr. Alexandre Maniçoba da Rosa Ferraz Jardim earned his PhD in Agricultural Engineering and BSc in Agronomy at the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco (UFRPE). He is currently a research fellow at the São Paulo State University “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” (UNESP), Institute of Biosciences. During his undergraduate studies, he was a scholarship holder of the Scientific Initiation Program by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (PIBIC/CNPq/UFRPE). He was a CAPES and FACEPE scholarship holder during his postgraduate studies at both the master's and doctoral levels. In addition, he is a member of the student body and researcher of the Agrometeorology Group in the Semiarid Region. His research focuses on land-use changes in annual and perennial forage species and tree species composition in dry forests.