Resumen
The special section includes selected presentations given at the World Congress Silvo-Pastoral Systems 2016 , held in Universidade de Évora, Portugal from 27th to 30th September, 2016, in the frame of the working group ?Forest management and modeling: silviculture, tree management and planning?. The aim of this special section is to give a comprehensive view of latest research developed in the frame of planning and management of agro-silvo-pastoral systems in several countries, with a climate characterized by two seasons, respectively dry and wet, and thus with drought as a limiting factor.