“…After decades of development, more than 200 ecological flow estimation methods have been proposed , including hydrologic, hydraulic, habitat-based and holistic approaches (Jowett, 1997;Tharme, 2003;Liu et al, 2011). Hydrological approaches are mainly based on historical flow, without consideration of flow rhythm or biology information, and are represented by the Tennant (Tennant, 1976), 7Q10 (Caissie et al, 1998) and range of variability (Richter et al, 1996) methods. Hydraulic approaches consider hydraulic parameters and contain simple biological information, but lack information on the effects of seasonal variation, such as wetted perimeter (Gippel and Stewardson, 1998) and R2Cross (Mosely, 1982).…”