Ben Iuliano
Lecturer Doc Sch
Weissman School of Arts and Sciences
Department: Natural Sciences
Areas of expertise: agroecology, sustainable food systems, entomology
Email Address: benjamin.iuliano@baruch.cuny.edu
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Ben Iuliano holds a PhD in Integrative Biology and an MSc in Agroecology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His teaching and research are concerned with the sustainable management of human-modified landscapes to promote the mutual flourishing of people and the rest of nature. In particular, the way we farm has profound consequences for the environment and biodiversity. Ben's work is concerned with 1) the mechanisms by which land use shapes biotic communities, or how agriculture affects biodiversity 2) the ecological interactions among crops and associated species, or how biodiversity affects agriculture, and 3) the social, economic, and political systems in which farming occurs, or how people interact with agricultural landscapes. As an instructor, Ben seeks to creatively integrate multi-disciplinary perspectives on these topics in order to equip students with the tools required to analyze and confront humanity's most pressing challenges.
Education
Ph.D., Integrative Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison United States
M.S., Agroecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison United States
B.Sc., Ecology, Evolution, and Biodiversity, University of Michigan Ann Arbor United States
| Semester | Course Prefix | Course Number | Course Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| Summer 2024 | ENV | 1004 | Fund Of Ecol Research |
| Summer 2024 | ENV | 1003 | Fundamentals of Ecology |
| Spring 2024 | ENV | 4900 | Capstone: Env Scienc |
| Spring 2024 | ENV | 4900 | Capstone: Env Scienc |
| Spring 2024 | ENV | 1003 | Fundamentals of Ecology |
| Fall 2023 | ENV | 1003L | Fundamentals of Ecology |
| Fall 2023 | ENV | 1003L | Fundamentals of Ecology |
| Fall 2023 | ENV | 1003L | Fundamentals of Ecology |
| Fall 2023 | ENV | 1003L | Fundamentals of Ecology |
| Fall 2023 | ENV | 1003L | Fundamentals of Ecology |
| Fall 2023 | ENV | 1003L | Fundamentals of Ecology |
| Fall 2023 | ENV | 1003L | Fundamentals of Ecology |
| Fall 2023 | ENV | 1003L | Fundamentals of Ecology |
Journal Articles
Iuliano, B. (2024). No farm is an island: constrained choice, landscape thinking, and ecological insect management among Wisconsin farmers. Agriculture and Human Values,
Iuliano, B., Gratton, C., Kim, T. N., & Spiesman, B. J. (2024). Semi-natural habitat, but not aphid amount or continuity, predicts lady beetle abundance across agricultural landscapes. Journal of Applied Ecology,
(2023). Looking beyond land-use and land-cover change: Zoonoses emerge in the agricultural matrix. One Earth,
(2022). Agriculturally intensified landscapes are associated with reduced body condition of lady beetles. Landscape Ecology, 37(7). 1921--1936.
(2022). ‘Scalescape’: an R package for estimating distance-weighted landscape effects on an environmental response. Landscape Ecology, 37(7). 1771--1785.
(2021). Human Dimensions: Agroecology for Just and Sustainable Food Systems. The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, e01871.
(2020). Temporal resource (dis) continuity for conservation biological control: From field to landscape scales. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 4. 127.
(2020). Temporal resource continuity increases predator abundance in a metapopulation model: insights for conservation and biocontrol. Land, 9(12). 479.
(2020). Monitoring cropland abandonment with Landsat time series. Remote Sensing of Environment, 246. 111873.
(2019). Changes in adult sex ratio in wild bee communities are linked to urbanization. Scientific Reports, 9(1). 3767.
(2017). Big city Bombus: using natural history and land-use history to find significant environmental drivers in bumble-bee declines in urban development. Royal Society open science, 4(5). 170156.
(2017). Socio-economic drivers of community garden location and quality in urban settings and potential effects on native pollinators. Michigan Journal of Sustainability, 5(1).
Book Chapters
(2021). Designing agricultural landscapes for arthropod-based ecosystem services in North America. The Future of Agricultural Landscapes, Part II (pp. 191--250).
Media Contributions
Iuliano, B., & Sullivan, C. Ground Truths Episode 6: Cultivating Food Justice Through Urban Farming.
Iuliano, B. (2022). Edge Effects - Digging Up the Deep Roots of Regenerative Agriculture: A Conversation with Liz Carlisle.
Iuliano, B., & Griffith, C. (2022). Ground Truths Episode 5: Farms, Fertilizer, and the Fight for Clean Water.
Presentations
Iuliano, B. (2024, November 28). Toward a political ecology of insect conservation in North American agricultural landscapes. Entomology. Phoenix, AZ: Entomological Society of Amerca.
Iuliano, B. (2024, August 28). No farm is an island: constrained choice, landscape thinking, and ecological insect management among Wisconsin farmers. ESA Annual Meeting. Long Beach, CA: Ecological Society of America.
Liere, H., Andow, D., Cho, C., Lipton, S., Iuliano, B., & Pochron, S. (2024, August 28). Agroecology for climate change mitigation and resilience. ESA Annual Meeting. Long Beach, CA: Ecological Society of America.
Iuliano, B., Hopes, A., Lu, W., & McKisson, K. Commons for whom? A collaborative series across digital publications in the environmental humanities. ASLE + AESS 2023. Online: The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) and Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS).
Iuliano, B., & Wheatley, K. Co-constructing crossroads: five years of TA reflections from an introductory agroecology course. Sustainable Agriculture Education Association Conference. Columbus, OH: Sustainable Agriculture Education Association.
Iuliano, B., Kim, T., Spiesman, B., Stadler, G., & Gratton, C. Can temporally continuous resource landscapes promote natural enemy conservation? Lessons from lady beetles in Wisconsin. Biological Control in Agroecosystems and Natural Areas: Highlighting the Work of a New Generation of Biocontrol Scientists. Virtual: Entomological Society of America, North Central Branch.
Milligan, J., Winslow, J., Hoekman, D., Iuliano, B. G., Kim, T. N., Spiesman, B. J., & Gratton, C. (2024, November 28). Do urban habitats provide prey resources for lady beetles?. Entomology. St. Louis, MO: Entomological Society of America.
Iuliano, B., Chappell, M. J., Kahl, H., Perfecto, I., & Kremen, C. (2024, August 28). Agroecology with communities: cross-disciplinary collaborations between ecology, agriculture, and social science. ESA Annual Meeting. Louisville, KY: Ecological Society of America.
Iuliano, B. G., Kim, T. N., Spiesman, B. J., Hoekman, D., & Gratton, C. (2024, November 28). Evaluating temporal continuity of prey resources for predatory lady beetles (Coccinellidae) in Wisconsin agricultural landscapes. Entomology. St. Louis: Entomological Society of America.
Iuliano, B., & Glaum, P. R. (2024, August 28). Insects and the city: Flying arthropods differentially respond to changing conditions of urban gardens across taxonomic groups and spatial scales.
Glaum, P. R., Simao, M. M., Fitch, G., Vaidya, C., & Iuliano, B. The uneven effects of urbanity on wild bee populations: The importance of functional groups in determining wild bee responses to urban development. ESA Annual Meeting. Portland, OR: Ecological Society of America.
Glaum, P. R., Simao, M. M., Fitch, G., Vaidya, C., & Iuliano, B. Bumble bees in urban environments: Using land use history and natural history to investigate the effects urban spaces on bees in the genus Bombus. ESA Annual Meeting. Fort Lauderdale: Ecological Society of America.
| Honor / Award | Organization Sponsor | Date Received | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dorothy Powelson Teaching Assistant Award | University of Wisconsin Madison | 2022-02-22 | This award recognizes outstanding performances by TAs in any natural science field and comes with a $1000 honorarium. |
| Jack & Marion Goetz Graduate Fellowship | University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | 2021-04-09 | The Jack & Marion Goetz Graduate Fellowship in Agricultural & Life Sciences supports excellence in graduate student research with emphasis on genetics and general environmental research at the agricultural research stations. It covers tuition and graduate stipend ($28,000) for one year. |
| Planetary Health Graduate Scholarship | University of Wisconsin–Madison Global Health Institute | 2020-04-01 | The Planetary Health Graduate Scholars program was created to galvanize awareness of and attention to planetary health research and scholarship at UW-Madison. The program supports graduate students conducting relevant research and connects a diverse community of scholars from across campus to share ideas, form collaborations, and generate new scholarship. |
| UW Madison Integrative Biology First Year Department Fellowship | University of Wisconsin—Madison Department Integrative Biology | 2018-04-01 | |
| UROP Biomedical & Life Sciences Summer Fellowship | University of Michigan Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program | 2015-05-01 |
College
| Committee Name | Position Role | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| CIRE Finalist Forum | Committee Member | Present | |
| ENV Major Development | Committee Member | Present |
Professional
| Organization | Position Role | Organization State | Organization Country | Start Date | End Date | Audience |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ecological Society of America | Reviewer, Conference Paper | 1/1/2022 | Present | International | ||
| Ecological Society of America, Agroecology Section | Officer, President/Elect/Past | 5/1/2023 | 10/1/2024 | National | ||
| Edge Effects Magazine | Editor, Journal Editor | 9/1/2022 | 7/31/2023 | International | ||
| Ecological Society of America, Agroecology Section | Officer, Secretary | 9/1/2020 | 5/31/2021 | International |