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This publication is the result of fruitful collaborative project FISHSTRAT funded by the EU’s INCO-DC programme. This project may be regarded as the continuation of an earlier tropical limnology project, the famous Parakrama Samudra reservoir project (Schiemer 1983), which studied this beautiful, ancient reservoir in the north-east of Sri Lanka more than 25 years ago. The results of this study and hypotheses emerging from these, inspired a whole generation of tropical limnologists. As for the Parakrama Samudra project, the idea for FISHTRAT project came from three prominent members of the earlier Pakrama Samudra team: Nan Duncan (Holloway College, UK), Fritz Schiemer (University of Vienna, Austria) and Upali Amarasinghe (Kellaniya University, Sri Lanka). They originally wanted to limit the project to Sri Lanka, but because the EU rules stipulated three countries in the same region, they included Thailand and Philippines as well. The book is dedicated to late Annie (Nan) Duncan, who coordinated the FISHSTRAT project until she became ill. This ambitious project had the aim to gain via multi-disciplinary and system-oriented research a better insight into the complex interrelationships in freshwater systems for formulating sustainable development policy recommendations for tropical water bodies. Research was carried out during 1998–2002 in five water bodies (four reservoirs and one lake) and their catchment areas in Sri Lanka, Thailand and the Philippines. This system-oriented approach integrated, limnology, fish ecology, fisheries, aquaculture and socio-economics conditions of the riparian fishing communities. To facilitate comparisons, the same methods, tools, gear and research strategy were used for all water bodies. This north– south partnership involved researchers from five European and three Asian countries. In total, 33 authors from 16 institutions were involved in writing the 23 book chapters. Limnology, including fish ecology, dominates 14 chapters, whereas fisheries and socio-economics are each represented by three chapters. Aquaculture with one chapter is clearly under represented. The whole effort is remarkable, taking into account the huge difficulties of coordinating the large number of people with different cultures and perceptions. This 23-chapter book has six sections. The first section (chapters 2–4) provides a general description of physical, hydrological and catchment characteristics of the water bodies. The second section (chapters 5–9) compares different aspects of the ecosystems. It focuses on phytoplankton community structure and factors governing phytoplankton primary production. Role of bacterial activity in the detrital food chain, seasonality, biomass and production of zooplankton populations are also discussed. The third section (chapters 10–14) focuses on fish ecology, use of hydro-acoustics for assessing fish stocks, feeding R. D. Gulati (&) Centre for Limnology, Nieuwersluis, The Netherlands e-mail: R.Gulati@nioo.knaw.nl

F. Schiemer, D. Simon, U.S. Amarasinghe & J. Moreau (eds): Aquatic ecosystems and development: comparative Asian perspectives