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Ecohydrology is an interdisciplinary science focused on the study and elucidation of feedbacks between water and associated energies fluxes (mainly nutrients and temperature), and aquatic and terrestrial biocenoses (Westman, 1977), their societal roles (Diaz et al., 2006), and the anthropogenic threat to their sustainability [Millenium Ecosystem Assessment (UN, 2005)]. It is in this context that ecohydrology was born as an interdisciplinary science [http://ecohydrology-ihp.org/demosites/] (Zalewski et al., 1997) and conceived as an interdisciplinary science based on the management principle of “dual regulation”, postulating “any action on the flux influences the biota, and any action on the biota influences the fluxes”. Human activities impact both (fluxes and biota), by modifying on the one hand the qualities and quantities of water fluxes and associated substances and, on the other hand, by modifying terrestrial and aquatic biocenoses through agricultural activities and land use, urbanization, and soil sealing, hydraulic developments on water bodies.