Larry Band

About

Larry Band is the Ernest H. Ern Professor of Environmental Science at the University of Virginia. He is an eco-hydrologist whose research spans the continuum of natural through urban watersheds. His work aims to develop and incorporate principles learned in unmanaged ecosystems as part of urban ecosystem restoration. This research focus highlights the integration of ecological and hydrological processes to better understand and improve urban environmental systems.

Research topics

• Ecology
• Environmental science
• Geology
• Sociology
• Meteorology
• Geography
• Climatology
• Biology
• Statistics
• Atmospheric sciences

Selected publications

• Vegetation structural change and CO2 fertilization more than offset gross primary production decline caused by reduced solar radiation in China

  Agricultural and Forest Meteorology · 2020 · 88 citations

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• Is Past Variability a Suitable Proxy for Future Change? A Virtual Catchment Experiment

  Water Resources Research · 2020 · 55 citations

  Abstract To estimate the robustness of hydrologic models under projected future climate change, researchers test transferability between climatically contrasting observed periods. This approach can only assess the performance changes induced by altered precipitation and related environmental dynamics (e.g., greening under wet conditions), since the instrumental record does not contain temperatures or carbon dioxide levels that are similar to future climate change projections. Additionally, there…

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• Non‐linear quickflow response as indicators of runoff generation mechanisms

  Hydrological Processes · 2020 · 41 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  Abstract Linking quickflow response to subsurface state can improve our understanding of runoff processes that drive emergent catchment behaviour. We investigated the formation of non‐linear quickflows in three forested headwater catchments and also explored unsaturated and saturated storage dynamics, and likely runoff generation mechanisms that contributed to threshold formation. Our analyses focused on two reference watersheds at the Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory (CHL) in western North Carolin…

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• Values-Based Scenarios of Water Security: Rights to Water, Rights of Waters, and Commercial Water Rights

  BioScience · 2021 · 19 citations

  Abstract Although a wide body of scholarly research recognizes multiple kinds of values for water, water security assessments typically employ just some of them. In the present article, we integrate value scenarios into a planetary water security model to incorporate multiple water-related social values and illustrate trade-offs among them. Specifically, we incorporate cultural values for environmental flows needed to sustain ecosystem function (rights of waters), the water requirements of a hum…

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• Changes in Blue/Green Water Partitioning Under Severe Drought

  Water Resources Research · 2023-11-01 · 15 citations

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  Abstract Much attention has been given to the disproportionate streamflow deficits (relative to rainfall deficits) experienced by many catchments during the Millennium Drought (1998–2009) in southeastern Australia, along with lack of post‐drought streamflow recovery in some cases. However, mechanisms behind the coupled hydrologic and ecosystem dynamics are poorly understood. We applied a process‐based ecohydrologic model (RHESSys) in a Melbourne water supply catchment to examine changes in ecohy…

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Recent grants

• ULTRA-Ex: Collaborative Research: Reconciling Human and Natural Systems for the Equitable Provision of Ecosystem Services in the Triangle of North Carolina

  NSF · $93k · 2009–2013

• Coastal SEES Collaborative Research: Effects of restoration and redevelopment on nitrogen dynamics in an urban coastal watershed

  NSF · $126k · 2014–2017

• Collaborative Research: CyberSEES: Type 2: A New Framework for Crowd-Sourced Green Infrastructure Design

  NSF · $572k · 2013–2017

Frequent coauthors

• Peter M. Groffman

  The Graduate Center, CUNY

  125 shared

• J. M. Duncan

  Pennsylvania State University

  54 shared

• Taehee Hwang

  Indiana University Bloomington

  43 shared

• Kenneth T. Belt

  34 shared

• James M. Vose

  North Carolina State University

  32 shared

• C. Tague

  University of California, Santa Barbara

  31 shared

• Garrick Louis

  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  29 shared

• Sujay S. Kaushal

  Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center

  29 shared

Labs

• Link LabPI

Education

• Phd, Geography

  University of California Los Angeles

  1983

Awards & honors

• 2017 Fellow, Geological Society of America
• 2014 Birdsall-Dreiss Lecturer, Geological Society of America

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• James A. Smithh-77
• James H. Lamberth-47
• Jonathan L. Goodallh-44