Ecosystem form and functioning is affected by inflows, a relationship that has long been an interest of aquatic ecologists (Ketchum 1951, 1954, Brook & Woodward 1956). More recently, special sessions at Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) and Association for the Sciences of Limno-logy and Oceanography (ASLO) conferences focused on this topic, with dedicated issues in Journal of Plankton Research (volume 33, 2011) and Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (volume 69, 2012) following these meetings. The extent and composition of seagrass beds, diversity of periphyton communities and timing of algal blooms are examples of ecosystem forms that are influenced by in flows

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