Faculty Profile
Stewart Diemont

Associate Professor

Department of Environmental Biology
460 Illick Hall

sdiemont@esf.edu
315-470-4707

Office: 460 Illick Hall

Lab: 221 Illick Hall

• Department of Environmental Biology
• Graduate Program in Environmental Science
• Center for Native Peoples and the Environment
• Restoration Science Center
• Syracuse Urban Food Forest Project
• ESF Honors Program

Selected Publications

Viera-Romero, A.M., Selfa, T.L., Luzadis, V.A. and Diemont, S.A.W., 2025. Ecological modernization in practice: a multiple case study in Ecuador. Environmental Sociology, pp.1-19.

McNulty, S., Luzadis, V.A., Hirsch, P., Limburg, K. and Diemont, S.A.W., 2025. Development of a hybrid public–private natural area governance model in the Adirondack Park of New York State. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, pp.1-13.

*Zeiger, J., Chankin, A., Selfa, T., Rolnick, R. and Diemont, S.A., 2024. Traditional knowledge complexity and climate change resilience: a case study of natural rainfall indicators of the Lacandon Maya. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 48(6), pp.807-820.

*Das, A., Diemont, S.A.W., Selfa, T. and Rakow, D.A., 2024. Gathering a bountiful harvest: the impacts of cultural ecosystem service experiences on management practices and agrobiodiversity in urban community gardens. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 48(5), pp.737-764.

*Garcia-Polo, J., Diemont, S.A.W., Falkowski, T.B. and Leopold, D.J., 2024. A wetland condition assessment to consider ecological relationships of a Maya cultural keystone species within the Lake Atitlan, Guatemala littoral zone. Wetlands, 44(4), p.39.

Viera-Romero, A.M., Diemont, S.A.W., Selfa, T.L. and Luzadis, V.A., 2024. The sustainability of shrimp aquaculture: An emergy-based case study in the Gulf of Guayaquil thirty years later. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 194, p.114326.

Bellows, A.C., Raj, S., Pitstick, E., Potteiger, M.R. and Diemont, S.A.W., 2023. Foraging wild edibles: dietary diversity in expanded food systems. Nutrients, 15(21), p.4630.

*Falkowski, T.B., Chankin, A., Lehmann, J., Drinkwater, L.E., Diemont, S.A.W. and Nigh, R., 2023. Socioecological effects of swidden management in traditional Maya agroforests in the Selva Lacandona of Chiapas, Mexico. Journal of Environmental Management, 341, p.118035.

*Pérez-Volkow, L., Diemont, S.A.W., Selfa, T., Morales, H. and Casas, A., 2023. From rainforest to table: Lacandon Maya women are critical to diversify landscapes and diets in Lacanjá Chansayab, Mexico. Agriculture and Human Values, 40(1), pp.259-275.

*Falkowski, T.B., Jorgensen, B., Rakow, D.A., *Das, A., Diemont, S.A.W., Selfa, T. and *Arrington, A.B., 2022. “Connecting With Good People and Good Plants”: Community Gardener Experiences in New York State During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, p.229.

*Peréz Volkow, L., Chank'in, A., Diemont, S. A. W., 2022. Chan nikté visita a sus abuelos. El Colegio de La Frontera Sur Press.

*Garcia Polo, J., Diemont, S. A. W., Armas, S. M., & Mora, M., 2022. Monitoreo de las condiciones ecológicas y la vegetación nativa en la región litoral del Lago Atitlán Guatemala usando sensore remotos. Revista de la Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, 42, 37-46.

Diemont, S. A. W., Soto-Pinto, L., & Jimenez-Ferrer, G., 2021. An overview of agroforestry and its relevance in the Mexican Context. North American Agroforestry, 521-541. Springer, Cham.

*Falkowski, T. B., & Diemont, S. A. W., 2021. Cultural Ecosystem Services in Agroforests. Agroforestry and Ecosystem Services, 361-387. Springer, Cham.

*Mokashi, S. A., & Diemont, S. A. W., 2021. Access denied: understanding the relationship between women and sacred forests in Western India. Oryx, 55(6), 827-834.

*Garcia-Polo, J., *Falkowski, T. B., *Mokashi, S.A., *Law, E.P., *Fix, A. J., & Diemont, S. A. W., 2021. Restoring ecosystems and eating them too: guidance from agroecology for sustainability. Restoration Ecology, 29(8), e13509.

*Falkowski, T.B., J.R. Vázquez Pérez, A. Chankin, A. Campos, J. L. Rangel Salazar, J. B. Cohen, S.AW. Diemont, 2020. Assessing avian diversity and community composition along a successional gradient in traditional Lacandon Maya agroforests, Biotropica, 52(6), pp.1242-1252.

*Law, E.P., *E. Arnow, S.A.W. Diemont, 2020. Ecosystem services from old-fields: Effects of site preparation and harvesting on restoration and productivity of traditional food plants, Ecological Engineering, 158, p.105999.

*Falkowski, T.B., A. Chankin, S.A.W. Diemont, 2020. Successional changes in vegetation and litter structure in traditional Lacandon Maya agroforests. Agriculture and Sustainable Food Systems, 44(6): 747-767.

*Bunge, A., S.AW. Diemont, J.A. Bunge., S. Harris, S., 2019. Urban foraging for food security and sovereignty: quantifying edible forest yield in Syracuse, New York using four common fruit-and nut-producing street tree species. Journal of Urban Ecology, 5(1), p.juy028.

Diemont, S.A.W., T. Toland, 2019. Urban Design toward More Holistic Systems:  Improving Discipline Integration and Sustainability Evaluation In: M. Hall, S. Balogh (eds.) Understanding Urban Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Systems Approach. Springer.

*Falkowski, T.B., D. Douterlungne, A. Chankin, S.A.W. Diemont, 2018. Effects of five Lacandon Maya agroforestry trees on soil nematode trophic group composition and successional dynamics. Agroforestry Systems, doi.org/10.1007/s10457-018-0330-7.

*Law, E.P., S.A.W. Diemont, T. Toland, 2017. A sustainability comparison of green infrastructure interventions using emergy evaluation. Journal of Cleaner Production 145: 374–385.

*Hamberg, L.J., S. Findlay, K.E. Limburg, S.A.W. Diemont, 2017. Herbivory and post-storm sediment burial as mechanisms of loss for Vallisneria americana in the Hudson River. Restoration Ecology doi:10.1111/rec.12477.

*Arrington, A., S.A.W. Diemont, C. Phillips, E. Welty, 2017. Demographic and landscape-level urban foraging trends in the United States derived from web and mobile app usage, Urban Ecology, accepted with minor revision, in press.

*Falkowski, T.B., S.A.W. Diemont, A. Chankin, D.R. Douterlungne, 2016. Lacandon Maya traditional ecological knowledge and rainforest restoration: Soil fertility beneath six agroforestry system trees. Ecological Engineering 92: 210-217.

*Nava-Lopez, M., S.A.W. Diemont, M. Hall, V. Avila-Akerberg, 2016. Riparian buffer zone and whole watershed influences on river water quality: Implications for ecosystem services near megacities. Environmental Processes 3(2): 277-305.

*Barlet, N.T., S.A.W. Diemont, M.A. Teece, K.L. Schulz, 2015. Emergent microbial food webs in ecological treatment systems for wastewater: Insight from stable carbon isotopes. Ecological Engineering, 62-71.

*Falkowski, T.B., *I. Martinez-Bautista, S.A.W. Diemont, 2015. How valuable could traditional ecological knowledge education be for a resource-limited future?: An emergy evaluation in two Mexican villages. Ecological Modelling 300: 40-49.

Beutel, M. W., S.A.W. Diemont, D. Reinhold, 2015. The 13th annual conference of the American ecological engineering society: Ecological engineering and the dawn of the 21st century. Ecological Engineering 78: 1-5.

Nigh, R., S.A.W. Diemont, 2014. The Mayan milpa: Fire and the legacy of living soil. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 11: e45–e54.

*Bohn, J., S.A.W. Diemont, J. Gibbs, S. Stehman, and J. Mendoza 2014. Implications of Mayan forest restoration and subsistence agriculture for biodiversity conservation in the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, Mexico. Agroforestry Systems 88: 269-285.

Ferguson, B.G., S.A.W. Diemont, †R. Alfaro, J.F. Martin, J.N. Toral, J.D. Álvarez Solís, 2013. Sustainability of holistic and conventional cattle ranching in the seasonally dry tropics of Chiapas, Mexico. Agricultural Systems 120: 38-48.

*Lin, H., S.A.W. Diemont, T. Toland, D. Daley, W. Tao, D. Johnson, 2013. Vermifiltration ecological treatment for the re-use of food waste digestate. Water Environment Research 85(11): 2184-2193.

Endreny, T. A., S.A.W. Diemont, 2012. Methods for assessing stormwater management at archaeological sites: Copan Ruins case study. Journal of Archaeological Science 39(8): 2637-2642.

Cheng, K., S.A.W. Diemont, and A.P. Drew, 2011. Role of tao (Belotia mexicana) in traditional 2Lacandon Maya shifting cultivation. Agroforestry systems 82(3): 331-336.

Diemont, S.A.W., *J. Bohn, *D. Rayome, *S. Kelsen, and †K.Cheng, 2011. Comparisons of Mayan forest management, restoration, and conservation. Forest Ecology and Management 261(10): 1696-1705.

Martin, J.F., E. Roy, S.A.W. Diemont, and B.G. Ferguson, 2010. Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK): Ideas, inspiration, and designs for ecological engineering. Ecological Engineering 36: 839-849.

†Alfaro, R., S.A.W. Diemont, B.G. Ferguson, J.F. Martin, J. Nahed, D. Álvarez, and R. Pinto Ruíz, 2010. Steps toward sustainable ranching: An emergy evaluation of conventional and holistic management in Chiapas, Mexico. Agricultural Systems 103(9): 639-646.

Diemont, S.A.W., T.J. Lawrence, and T.A. Endreny, 2010. Envisioning ecological engineering education: An international survey of the educational and professional community. Ecological Engineering 36: 570-578.

Diemont, S.A.W., J.F. Martin, 2009. Lacandon Maya ecological management: A sustainable design for environmental restoration and human subsistence. Ecological Applications 19: 254-266.

Diemont, S.A.W., J.F. Martin, S.I. Levy-Tacher, R.B. Nigh, P. Ramirez-Lopez, and J. D. Golicher, 2006. Lacandon Maya forest management: restoration of soil fertility using native tree species. Ecological Engineering 28: 205-212.

Martin, J.F., S.A.W. Diemont, E. Powell, M. Stanton, and S.I. Levy-Tacher, 2006. Emergy evaluation of the performance and sustainability of three agricultural systems with different scales and management. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 115: 128-140.

Diemont, S.A.W., 2006. Mosquito larvae density and pollutant removal in tropical wetland treatment systems in Honduras. Environment International 32: 332-341.

Diemont, S.A.W., J.F. Martin, and S.I. Levy-Tacher, 2006. Emergy evaluation of Lacandon Maya indigenous swidden agroforestry in Chiapas, Mexico. Agroforestry Systems 66: 23-42.

Diemont, S.A.W., J.F. Martin, 2005. Management impacts on the trophic diversity of nematode communities in an indigenous agroforestry system of Chiapas, Mexico. Pedobiologia 49: 325-334.

* Advisee