Papers Listed by Topic

The following list covers a few major areas of recent research, grouped by topic. Not all papers are listed here. Most of these are papers that appeared in books or journals, although a few are in the "grey literature" of ICES reports, or are available only on this site.

The topics covered are:

Management and Optimisation, Mostly Fisheries
Particle Size Distributions in Aquatic Systems
Ecological Theory and Modelling
Forecasting and Other Applications of Fuzzy Logic
Ecotoxicology
Aquaculture Impacts

Management and Optimisation, Mostly Fisheries

W. Silvert and W. R. Smith. 1977. Optimal exploitation of a multi-species community. Math. Biosci. 33:121-134.

W. Silvert. 1977. The economics of over-fishing. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 106:121-130.

W. Silvert. 1978. The price of knowledge: fisheries management as a research tool. J. Fish. Res. Board Can. 35:208-212.

W. Silvert. 1978. Anomalous enhancement of mean population levels by harvesting. Math. Biosci. 42:253-256.

William Silvert. 1982. Top-down modeling of multispecies fisheries. In Multispecies Approaches to Fisheries Management Advice, M. C. Mercer, ed. Can. Spec. Publ. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 59:24-27.

William Silvert and Lloyd M. Dickie. 1982. Multispecies interactions between fish and fishermen. In Multispecies Approaches to Fisheries Management Advice, M. C. Mercer, ed. Can. Spec. Publ. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 59:163-169.

William Silvert. 1982. Optimal utilization of a variable fish supply. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 39:462-468.

William Silvert and Howard Powles. 1983. Applications of operations research to the design of field sampling programs. In Sampling Commercial Catches of Marine Fish and Invertebrates, W. G. Doubleday and D. Rivard, eds. Can. Spec. Publ. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 66:268-278.

Alan Longhurst and William Silvert. 1985. A management model for the Great Bustard in Iberia. Bustard Studies 2:57-72.

J. A. Runge, P. Pepin, and W. Silvert. 1987. Feeding behaviour of Atlantic mackerel, Scomber scombris, on the hydromedusan Aglantha digitale. Marine Biology 94:329-333.

J. Anthony Koslow, Keith R. Thompson, and William Silvert. 1987. Recruitment to Northwest Atlantic Cod (Gadus morhua) and Haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) Stocks: Influence of Stock Size and Environment. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 44(1):26-39.

W. Silvert and R. J. M. Crawford 1988. The Periodic Replacement of One Fish Stock by Another. Proc. Int. Symp. on Long Term Changes in Marine Fish Populations, Vigo, Spain, Nov. 1986., 161-180.

William Silvert. 1991. The role of habitat changes during early life stages of fish. ICES 1991 Mini-Symposium on Models of Recruitment Processes Relevant to the Formulation of Research Strategies. Proc. ICES Statutory Meeting, C.M. 1991/Mini:7. 8 p.

William Silvert. 1994. Bloom Dynamics in Marine Food Chain Models with Migration. ICES 1994 theme session on Pelagic fish and plankton interactions in marine ecosystems. Proc. ICES Annual Science Conference, C. M. 1994/R:2 (Sess. R). 16 p.

William Silvert. 1994. Putting management models on the manager's desktop. J. Biol. Systems 2(4):519-527.

S.J.M. Blaber, J-J. Albaret, Chong Ving Ching, D.P. Cyrus, J.W. Day, M. Elliott, M. Fonseca, D. Hoss, J. Orensanz, I.C. Potter, and W. Silvert. 2000. Effects of fishing on the structure and functioning of estuarine and near shore ecosystems. Report of SCOR WG 105, presented at ICES/SCOR Symposium on Ecosystem Effects of Fishing, Montpellier, France, 16-19 March 1999. ICES Journal of Marine Science 57: 590-602.

Particle Size Distributions in Aquatic Systems

W. Silvert and T. Platt. 1978. Energy Flux in the Pelagic Ecosystem: A Time-Dependent Equation. Limnol. Oceangr. 23:813-816.

William Silvert and Trevor Platt. 1980. Dynamic energy-flow model of the particle size distribution in pelagic ecosystems. In Evolution and Ecology of Zooplankton Communities, pp. 754-763. W. C. Kerfoot, ed. Univ. Press of New England, Hanover, N. H.

Trevor Platt and William Silvert. 1981. Ecology, physiology, allometry and dimensionality. J. Theor. Biol. 93:855-860.

William Silvert. 1984. Particle size spectra in ecology. In Mathematical Ecology S. A. Levin and T. G. Hallam, eds. Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Biomathematics 54, pp. 154-162.

William Silvert. 1988. Generic Models of Continental Shelf Ecosystems. In Ecodynamics: Contributions to Theoretical Ecology, 153-161. W. Wolff, C.-J. Soeder and F. R. Drepper, eds. Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Physics, Berlin.

William Silvert. 1993. Size-structured models of continental shelf food webs. Trophic Models of Aquatic Ecosystems. ICLARM Cong. Proc. 26:40-43. V. Christensen and D. Pauly (eds).

William Silvert. 1996. Size-aggregation in models of aquatic ecosystems. Science of the Total Environment 183: 107-114.

Ecological Theory and Modelling

W. Silvert. 1979. Practical curve fitting. Limnol. Oceanogr. 24:767-773.

William Silvert. 1981. Principles of ecosystem modelling. In Analysis of Marine Ecosystems, pp. 651-676. A. R. Longhurst, ed. Academic Press, London.

William Silvert. 1981. Top-down modelling in marine ecology. In Progress in Ecological Engineering and Management by Mathematical Modelling, pp. 259-270. D. M. Dubois, ed. Editions Cebedoc, Liege.

William Silvert and William R. Smith. 1981. The response of ecosystems to external perturbations. Math. Biosci. 55:279-306.

William Silvert. 1982. The theory of power and efficiency in ecology. Ecological Modelling 15:159-164.

William Silvert. 1983. Amplification of environmental fluctuations by marine ecosystems. Oceanol. Acta. Proc. 17th European Marine Biological Symp., pp. 183-186.

William Silvert. 1983. Is dynamical systems theory the best way to understand ecosystem stability? In Population Biology H. I. Freedman and C. Strobeck, eds. Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Mathematics 52, pp. 366-371.

J. G. Field, F. V. Wulff, P. M. Allen, M. J. R. Fasham, J. Flos, S. Frontier, J. J. Kay, W. Silvert, and L. Trainor. 1985. Ecosystem theory in relation to unexploited marine ecosystems. Ecosystem Theory for Biological Oceanography, R. E. Ulanowicz and T. Platt, Eds. Can. Bull. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 213:241-247.

William Silvert. 1985. Model uniqueness. Can. Tech. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 1347:132-135. In Towards the Inclusion of Fishery Interactions in Management Advice, R. Mahon, ed.

Gordon, D. C. Jr., P. D. Keizer, G. R. Daborn, P. Schwinghamer and W. L. Silvert. 1986. Adventures in holistic ecosystem modelling: the Cumberland Basin ecosystem model. Neth. J. Sea Res. 20:325-335.

William Silvert. 1987. Book review of Ecological Simulation Primer by Gordon L. Swartzman and Stephen P. Kaluzny, Macmillan Publishing Company, New York, 1987. xiii+370 pp. Natural Resource Modelling 2(2):327-330.

W. Silvert and D. Pauly. 1987. On the compatibility of a new expression for gross conversion efficiency with the von Bertalanffy growth equation. U. S. Fish. Bull. 85(1):139-140.

William Silvert. 1989. Modelling for managers. Ecological Modelling 47:53-64.

William Silvert. 1991. Experiments in benthic modelling. Report of the workshop MODELLING THE BENTHOS. Yerseke, Netherlands, 20-22 March 1991. P. M. J. Herman and C. H. R. Heip, eds. Delta Institute for Hydrobiological Research, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Comm. No. 538, pp. 175-188.

William Silvert. 1992. Many risks, many models: addressing the variety of problems that pollution can cause. ICES 1992 Mini-Symposium on Ecosystem Modelling as a Tool to Predict Pollution Associated Risks for the Marine Environment. Proc. ICES Statutory Meeting, C.M. 1992/Mini:4. 4 p.

William Silvert. 1992. Object Oriented Simulation Programming in Ecological Modelling. Presented at 8th ISEM Int. Conf. on Ecological Modelling.

W. Silvert. 1993. Object-oriented ecosystem modelling. Ecological Modelling 68:91-118.

W. Silvert. 1993. The distributed derivative: an aid to modular modelling. Ecological Modelling 68:293-302.

William Silvert. 1993. Top-down modelling in ecology. Concise Encyclopedia of Environmental Systems, p. 605. P. C. Young (Ed.) Pergamon Press.

William Silvert. 1995. Is the logistic equation a Lotka-Volterra model?. Ecological Modelling 77:95-96.

D. C. Gordon, Jr., P. R. Boudreau, K. H. Mann, J.-E. Ong, W. Silvert, S. V. Smith, G. Wattayakorn, F. Wulff and T. Yanagi. 1996. LOICZ Biogeochemical Modelling Guidelines. LOICZ Reports and Studies No. 5.

William Silvert. 1996. Complexity. J. Biol. Systems 4: 585-591.

William Silvert. 1997. The role of interactions in long-term population cycles. Environmental Modelling and Assessment 2: 49-54.

William Silvert and Martin Baptist. 2000. Can Neuronal Networks be used in Data-Poor Situations? Presented at Int. Workshop on Applications of Artificial Neural Networks to Ecological Modelling, Toulouse, France, 14-17 Dec. 1998. In: S. Lek & J.-F. Guégan (Eds.), Artificial Neuronal Networks; Application to Ecology and Evolution. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, p. 241-248.

William Silvert. 2001. Modelling as a Discipline. Int. J. General Systems 30(3): 261-282.

Forecasting and Other Applications of Fuzzy Logic

W. Silvert. 1979. Symmetric summation: a class of operations on fuzzy sets. IEEE Trans. Syst., Man, Cyber. SMC-9:657-659. Reprinted in Readings in Fuzzy Sets for Intelligent Systems, D. Dubois, H. Prade, and R. R. Yager (eds.), Morgan Kaufman (San Mateo, CA) 1993, p. 77-79.

William Silvert. 1980. The optimization and evaluation of forecasts. Proc. WMO Symp. on Probabilistic and Statistical Methods in Weather Forecasting, pp. 145-149.

William Silvert. 1981. The formulation and evaluation of predictions. Int. J. General Systems 7:189-205.

William Silvert. 1987. Forecast evaluation in ecological modelling. Systems and Control Encyc., M. G. Singh, Ed., pp. 1710-1711. Pergamon Press.

William Silvert. 1997. Ecological impact classification with fuzzy sets. Ecological Modelling 96: 1-10.

W. Silvert. 1999. Fuzzy Logic and Ecological Indices. PowerPoint presentation at meeting of ICES Working Group on Zooplankton Ecology, Reykjavik, Iceland, April 1999.

W. Silvert. 1999. Fuzzy Logic in Natural Resource Modelling. PowerPoint presentation at Resource Modelling Association meeting in Halifax, NS, July 1999.

William Silvert. 2000. Fuzzy Indices of Environmental Conditions. Presented at INDEX 1998 Workshop on Environmental Indicators and Indices, Styria, Austria, 10-14 July 1998. Ecological Modelling 130/1-3: 111-119.

Silvert, William. 2001. Fuzzy aspects of system science. Presented at Systems Science 2000 in Osnabrück, Germany, March 2000. In: Integrative Systems Approaches to Natural and Social Dynamics : Systems Science 2000, M. Matthies, H. Malchow and J. Kriz (eds.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, p. 73-81. Also available as a PowerPoint show. 

Silvert, William. 2001. Confronting the Complexity of HAB (Harmful Algal Bloom) Dynamics. Presentation to LIFEHAB Workshop, Majorca, Spain, October 2001.

Ecotoxicology

J. H. Vandermeulen, W. Silvert, and A. Foda. 1983. Sublethal hydrocarbon toxicity in the marine unicellular alga Pavlova lutheri Droop. Aquatic Toxicology 4:31-49.

W. Silvert and D. V. Subba Rao. 1992. Dynamic model of the flux of domoic acid, a neurotoxin, through a Mytilus edulis population. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 49:400-405.

W. L. Silvert and A. D. Cembella. 1995. Dynamic Modelling of Phycotoxin Kinetics in the Blue Mussel, Mytilus edulis, with Implications for other Marine Invertebrates Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 52: 521-531.

D. J. Douglas, E. R. Kenchington, C. J. Bird, R. Pocklington, B. Bradford and W. Silvert. 1997. Accumulation of domoic acid by the sea scallop Placopectin magellenicus fed cultured cells of toxic Pseudo-nitzschia multiseries. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 54: 907-913. Note: This link is only available to CJFAS subscribers.

William Silvert, Monica Bricelj and Allan Cembella. 1998. Dynamic modelling of PSP toxicity in the surfclam (Spisula solidissima): multicompartmental kinetics and biotransformation. Presented at Int. Conf. on Harmful Algae, Vigo, June 1997. In Harmful Microalgae, B. Reguera, J. Blanco, M. L. Fernández, and T. Wyatt, Eds., Xunta de Galicia and Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, p. 437-440.

W. L. Silvert and A. D. Cembella. 1999. Inverse Modelling of Toxic Algal Bloom Dynamics and Cell Toxicity by Back-Calculation from Shellfish Toxicity. Proc. 6th Can. Workshop on Harmful Marine Algae, St. Andrew's, N. B., May 1998. Can. Tech. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 2261: 44-51. x + 149 p. Martin J.L. and K. Haya, Eds.

Silvert, William. 2001. Confronting the Complexity of HAB (Harmful Algal Bloom) Dynamics. Presentation to LIFEHAB Workshop, Majorca, Spain, October 2001.

Aquaculture Impacts

W. L. Silvert, P. D. Keizer, D. C. Gordon, Jr., and D. Duplisea. 1990. Modelling the feeding, growth and metabolism of cultured salmonids. Proc. ICES Statutory Meeting, C. M. 1990/F:8 (Sess. O). 16 p.

Paul D. Keizer, William Silvert, Barry T. Hargrave and Donald C. Gordon, Jr. 1991. Modelling the environmental impacts of cultured salmonids. Paper at N. E. Fish and Wildlife Conf., Augusta, Maine.

William Silvert. 1992. Assessing environmental impacts of finfish aquaculture in marine waters. Aquaculture 107:67-71.

William Silvert. 1994. A decision support system for regulating finfish aquaculture. Ecological Modelling 75/76:609-615.

William Silvert. 1994. Decision support systems for aquaculture licensing. J. Appl. Ichthyol. 10: 307-311.

W. Silvert. 1994. Modelling Benthic Deposition and Impacts of Organic Matter Loading. p. 1-18. In Modelling benthic impacts of organic enrichment from marine aquaculture. Can. Tech. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 1949. xi+125 p. B. T. Hargrave, Ed.

William Silvert. 1994. Modelling environmental aspects of mariculture: problems of scale and communication. Fisken og Havet, vol. 13, p. 61-68.

R. J. Gowen, D. Smyth, and W. Silvert. 1994. Modelling the Spatial Distribution and Loading of Organic Fish Farm Waste to the Seabed. p. 19-30. In Modelling benthic impacts of organic enrichment from marine aquaculture. Can. Tech. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 1949. xi+125 p. B. T. Hargrave, Ed.

William Silvert. 1994. Simulation models of finfish farms. J. Appl. Ichthyol. 10: 349-352.

William Silvert. 1994. Spatial Scales of Mariculture Impacts. DFO Aquaculture Workshop, BIO, 18 Jan. 1994.

J. W. Sowles, L. Churchill, and W. Silvert. 1994. The Effect of Benthic Carbon Loading on the Degradation of Bottom Conditions Under Farm Sites. p. 31-46. In Modelling benthic impacts of organic enrichment from marine aquaculture. Can. Tech. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 1949. xi+125 p. B. T. Hargrave, Ed.

Dror Angel, Peter Krost and Bill Silvert. 1995. Geochemical and biological dynamics below a warm-water fish farm in the oligotrophic Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea, and our attempts to model farm effects on the benthos. International Workshop on Modelling Environmental Interactions of Mariculture, Dartmouth, N. S., 6-8 Sept. 1995.

William Silvert. 1995. Modelling Environmental Interactions of Mariculture. Proc. ICES Annual Science Conference, C. M. 1995/R:6 (Sess. R).

William Silvert and Barry Hargrave. 1995. Report on International Workshop on Modelling Environmental Interactions of Mariculture. Proc. ICES Annual Science Conference, C. M. 1995/F:6 (Sess. F).

William Silvert and J. W. Sowles. 1996. Modelling Environmental Impacts of Marine Finfish Aquaculture. J. Appl. Ichthyology 12: 75-81.

Martin Baptist, William Silvert, Dror Angel and Peter Krost. 1997. Assessing benthic impacts of fish farming with an expert system based on neural networks. Proc. Gulf of Maine Ecosystem Dynamics Scientific Symposium and Workshop. RARGOM Report, 97-1. Hanover, NH: Regional Association for Research on the Gulf of Maine. P. 313. Wallace, G. T., and E. F. Braasch, eds.

Dror Angel, Peter Krost and William Silvert. 1998. Describing benthic impacts of fish farming with fuzzy sets: theoretical background and analytical methods. J. Appl. Ichthyol. 14: 1-8.

Martin J. Baptist, William Silvert, Peter Krost, and Dror L. Angel. 1998. Assessing Benthic Impacts of Fish Farming with an Expert System Based on Neural Networks. Bulletin of the Canadian Society for Theoretical Biology, Fall 1998.

William Silvert and Chris Cromey. 2001. Modelling Impacts. In: Environmental Impacts of Aquaculture, K. D. Black (ed.), Sheffield Academic Press, Sheffield, p. 154-181.

William Silvert. 2001. Impact on habitats: determining what is acceptable. Proc. Meeting on Marine Aquaculture and the Environment, Boston, Jan. 2001.

Eva Roth, Hans Ackefors, Frank Asche, Christian Balnath, Edward Black, Kenneth Black, Andrew Boghen, Craig Browdy, Peter Burbridge, John D. Castell, George Chamberlain, Konrad Dabrowski, Ian Davies, Antoine Dosdat, Anastasio Eleftheriou, Arne Ervik, Hillel Gordin, Christopher S. Heinig, Volker Hilge, Ioannis Karakassis, Holmer Kuhlmann, Thomas Landry, Mathias von Lukowicz, Jaqueline McGlade, Andrew Price, Robertt B. Rheault, Harald Rosenthal, Ulrich Saint-Paul, Paul A. Sandifer, Marco Saroglia, William Silvert, Werner Steffens, Doris Soto, Laszlo Varadi, Johan Verreth, Marc Verdegem, Uwe Waller. 2002. An intellectual injustice to aquaculture development: a response to the review article on "Effect of aquaculture on world fish supplies". This appeared as an annex to the proceedings of the 2002 meeting of the ICES Working Group in Environmental Interactions of Mariculture (WGEIM) and will published separately.

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