Dr. Bruce Schaffer currently serves as a professor of plant physiology at the University of Florida, Tropical Research and Education Center. He obtained his Ph.D. from Virginia Tech University in 1985. For the past 38 years, Dr. Bruce Schaffer's research has focused primarily on the ecophysiology of subtropical and tropical horticultural crops. He is internationally recognized for his research on the physiological and growth responses of woody plants to root zone flooding. Dr. Schaffer has also been involved in numerous interdisciplinary projects to assess the effects of biotic and abiotic stresses on the physiology, growth, and productivity of several subtropical and tropical horticultural crop species. Dr. Schaffer is a fellow of the American Society for Horticultural Sciences and a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Sigma Xi-The Scientific Research Society of North America, and the International Society for Horticultural Sciences. He has published more than 160 peer-reviewed scientific journal articles in over 70 different refereed journals and more than 200 additional publications, including books, book chapters, technical reports, and proceedings articles.