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The following list covers only publications in the fields of fisheries, ecology, and systems theory, starting in 1977. A list of approximately 40 earlier papers on physics is available on request, as is a more complete listing of recent papers including internal reports.

A shorter listing of the more important papers listed by topic is also available.

Some papers are available as downloadable Adobe PDF files, those are available here. Because PDF files are added to this list regularly you may find some PDFs in this listing that are not shown as available in the list below. Some physics papers are listed there as well.

Papers on Fisheries and Marine Ecology

During the 1960's and the first half of the 1970's Bill Silvert worked in physics. Just a representative few of these papers are listed on this server. He moved from the Dalhousie University Physics Department to the Dalhousie Institute of Oceanography in 1975 and began work at Bedford Institute of Oceanography in 1978. The papers that he started working on after 1975 are listed below. If you are not interested in the earlier papers you can jump to 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 or 2006.

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  1. W. Silvert and W. R. Smith. 1977. Optimal exploitation of a multi-species community. Math. Biosci. 33:121-134.
  2. W. Silvert. 1977. The economics of over-fishing. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 106:121-130.
  3. W. Silvert. 1978. Anomalous enhancement of mean population levels by harvesting. Math. Biosci. 42:253-256.
  4. W. Silvert and T. Platt. 1978. Energy Flux in the Pelagic Ecosystem: A Time-Dependent Equation. Limnol. Oceangr. 23:813-816.
  5. W. Silvert. 1978. The price of knowledge: fisheries management as a research tool. J. Fish. Res. Board Can. 35:208-212.
  6. W. Silvert. 1978. Theory of growth and foraging. In: Dynamic bio-energetic aspects of ecosystems: project reports. Institute of Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. 15 p.
  7. W. Silvert. 1979. Book review, A Coastal Marine Ecosystem, Simulation and Analysis, by J. N. Kremer and S. W. Nixon. J. Fish. Res. Board Can. 36:597-598.
  8. W. Silvert. 1979. Practical curve fitting. Limnol. Oceanogr. 24:767-773.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. William Silvert. 1980. The optimization and evaluation of forecasts. Proc. WMO Symp. on Probabilistic and Statistical Methods in Weather Forecasting, pp. 145-149.
  12. William Silvert. 1981. Comment on optimum swimming speeds in fish. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 38:729.
  13. Platt, Trevor, and William Silvert. 1981. Ecology, physiology, allometry and dimensionality. J. Theor. Biol. 93:855-860.
  14. William Silvert. 1981. Minicomputer simulation of the aging process. Can. Math. Soc. Appl. Math. Notes 6:77-79.
  15. William Silvert. 1981. Principles of ecosystem modelling. In Analysis of Marine Ecosystems, pp. 651-676. A. R. Longhurst, ed. Academic Press, London.
  16. William Silvert. 1981. The formulation and evaluation of predictions. Int. J. General Systems 7:189-205.
  17. William Silvert and William R. Smith. 1981. The response of ecosystems to external perturbations. Math. Biosci. 55:279-306.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. William Silvert. 1982. Optimal utilization of a variable fish supply. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 39:462-468.
  21. William Silvert. 1982. The theory of power and efficiency in ecology. Ecological Modelling 15:159-164.
  22. 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.
  23. William Silvert. 1983. Amplification of environmental fluctuations by marine ecosystems. Oceanol. Acta. Proc. 17th European Marine Biological Symp., pp. 183-186.
  24. 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.
  25. William Silvert. 1983. Ecological modelling with electronic spreadsheets. Can. Math. Soc. Appl. Math. Notes 8:1-8.
  26. 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.
  27. William Silvert. 1983. Review of Energetics and Systems. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 112:230-232.
  28. Vandermeulen, J. H., W. Silvert, and A. Foda. 1983. Sublethal hydrocarbon toxicity in the marine unicellular alga Pavlova lutheri Droop. Aquatic Toxicology 4:31-49.
  29. 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.
  30. William Silvert. 1984. Teaching ecological modeling with electronic spreadsheets. Collegiate Microcomputer 2:129-133.
  31. William Silvert. 1985. BSIM Reference Manual (discontinued). BSIM-Central. P. 21.
  32. Field, J. G., 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.
  33. 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.
  34. William Silvert. 1985. Report on Grand Banks Modelling Project, 9 May 1985. P. 52.
  35. Longhurst, Alan, and William Silvert. 1985. A management model for the Great Bustard in Iberia. Bustard Studies 2:57-72.
  36. Hickman, Charles, and William Silvert. 1986-06-13. Sensitivity Analysis of the Grand Banks Ecosystem Model. Phase 1: Biological Variables, 1 Year Simulations. MEL Internal Report. P. 10.
  37. Hickman, Charles, and William Silvert. 1986-06-17. Sensitivity Analysis of the Grand Banks Ecosystem Model. Phase 2: Biological Variables, 5 Year Simulations. MEL Internal Report. P. 7.
  38. Hickman, Charles, and William Silvert. 1986-06-26. Sensitivity Analysis of the Grand Banks Ecosystem Model. Phase 3: Multiple Changes in Heterotrophic Rates, 1 and 5 Year Simulations. MEL Internal Report. P. 12.
  39. Hickman, Charles, and William Silvert. 1986-08-12. Sensitivity Analysis of the One-Box Model. Phase 4: Single and multiple parameter changes and comparison with the Grand Banks model. MEL Internal Report. P. 24.
  40. Hickman, Charles, and William Silvert. 1986-09-18. Sensitivity Analysis of the One-Box Model. Phase 5: Phytoplankton parameters. MEL Internal Report. P. 11.
  41. 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.
  42. William Silvert. 1986. Followup Report on Grand Banks Workshop, 22-24 April 1986. MEL Internal Report. P. 24.
  43. William Silvert. 1986. Report on Grand Banks Modelling Project, 1 April 1986. P. 40.
  44. 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.
  45. Runge, J. A., P. Pepin, and W. Silvert. 1987. Feeding behaviour of Atlantic mackerel, Scomber scombris, on the hydromedusan Aglantha digitale. Marine Biology 94:329-333.
  46. William Silvert. 1987. Forecast evaluation in ecological modelling. Systems and Control Encyc., M. G. Singh, Ed., pp. 1710-1711. Pergamon Press.
  47. William Silvert. 1987. Modelling the Grand Banks: what now? CAFSAC Working Paper 87/150. CAFSAC.
  48. 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.
  49. William Silvert. 1987. Parameter estimation in ecological modelling. Systems and Control Encyc., M. G. Singh, Ed. Pergamon Press.
  50. William Silvert. 1987. Perturbation models of ecosystems. Systems and Control Encyc., M. G. Singh, Ed. Pergamon Press.
  51. Koslow, J. Anthony, 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.
  52. William Silvert. 1987. Size dependence in ecology. Systems and Control Encyc., M. G. Singh, Ed. Pergamon Press.
  53. William Silvert. 1987. Top-down modelling. Systems and Control Encyc., M. G. Singh, Ed. Pergamon Press.
  54. William Silvert. 1988. BSIM Beginners' Guide (discontinued). BSIM-Central. P. 4.
  55. William Silvert. 1988. BSIM Installation Manual (discontinued). BSIM-Central. P. 5.
  56. William Silvert. 1988. BSIM Porting Guide (discontinued). BSIM-Central. P. 14.
  57. William Silvert. 1988. BSIM Users' Guide (discontinued). BSIM-Central. P. ii+35.
  58. 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.
  59. Gordon, Donald, and William Silvert. 1988. Proposed Georges Bank Ecosystem Model. Proc. 1987 Georges Bank Research Workshop.
  60. William Silvert. 1988. Symmetric Summation. Byte 13(7):30-32.
  61. 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.
  62. William Silvert. 1989. BCHART User's Guide. BSIM-Central. P. 1.
  63. W. L. Silvert, P.D. Keizer and D.C. Gordon. 1989. Ecosystem Modelling on Georges Bank (abstract only). Proc. Second Georges Bank Research Workshop (1988), p. 24.
  64. William Silvert. 1989. Modelling as a Research Tool. Proc. Interdisciplinary Conf. on Natural Resource Modelling and Analysis. Pp. 49-53. Charles, A. T., and G. N. White (Eds.). Centre for Resource Systems Analysis, Halifax, N. S.
  65. William Silvert. 1989. Modelling for managers. Ecological Modelling 47:53-64.
    1990
  66. William Silvert. 1990. @Library, for Lotus Symphony or Lotus 1-2-3, Release 2 (software review). Math. Biosci. 98:305-308.
  67. William Silvert. 1990. BSIM Cookbook Supplement for the Macintosh. BSIM-Central. P. 5.
  68. William Silvert. 1990. BSIM Newsletter. BSIM-Central. P. 5.
  69. 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.
  70. William Silvert. 1990. Size-Structured Models of Continental Shelf Food Webs. Proc. ICES Meeting, C. M. 1990/L:43 (Poster).
    1991
  71. William Silvert. 1991. BSIM Cookbook Supplement for the Atari ST. BSIM-Central. P. 3.
  72. William Silvert. 1991. BSIM Programmers' Manual. BSIM-Central. P. 20.
  73. 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.
  74. Keizer, Paul D., 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.
  75. William Silvert. 1991. The BSIM Cookbook. BSIM-Central. P. 23.
  76. 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.
    1992
  77. William Silvert. 1992. Assessing environmental impacts of finfish aquaculture in marine waters. Aquaculture 107:67-71.
  78. William Silvert. 1992. BSIM Cookbook Supplement for MS-DOS. BSIM-Central. P. 8.
  79. William Silvert. 1992. BSIM Cookbook Supplement for Unix and for VAX-VMS Systems. BSIM-Central. P. 7.
  80. William Silvert. 1992. BSIM, a Portable Package for Distributed Ecological Modelling. Presented at 8th ISEM Int. Conf. on Ecological Modelling.
  81. 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.
  82. William Silvert. 1992. Introduction to BSIM. BSIM-Central. P. 5.
  83. 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.
  84. William Silvert. 1992. Object Oriented Simulation Programming in Ecological Modelling. Presented at 8th ISEM Int. Conf. on Ecological Modelling.
  85. William Silvert. 1992. The Desktop Scientist: Models that a Manager can Use. Presented at 8th ISEM Int. Conf. on Ecological Modelling.
    1993
  86. W. Silvert. 1993. Object-oriented ecosystem modelling. Ecological Modelling 68:91-118.
  87. W. 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).
  88. W. Silvert. 1993. The distributed derivative: an aid to modular modelling. Ecological Modelling 68:293-302.
  89. William Silvert. 1993. Top-down modelling in ecology. Concise Encyclopedia of Environmental Systems, p. 605. P. C. Young (Ed.) Pergamon Press.
    1994
  90. William Silvert. 1994. A decision support system for regulating finfish aquaculture. Ecological Modelling 75/76:609-615.
  91. 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.
  92. William Silvert. 1994. Calculations of Holding Capacity. DFO Aquaculture Workshop, BIO, 18 Jan. 1994.
  93. William Silvert. 1994. Data Requirements for Modelling Mariculture Interactions. DFO Aquaculture Workshop, BIO, 18 Jan. 1994.
  94. William Silvert. 1994. Decision support systems for aquaculture licensing. J. Appl. Ichthyol. 10: 307-311.
  95. William Silvert. 1994. Decision Support Systems for Coastal Zone Management. Presented at Coastal Zone Canada '94 on 21 September 1994.
  96. William Silvert. 1994. Draft Guidelines for the Bay of Fundy and Benthic Carbon Loading. DFO Aquaculture Workshop, BIO, 18 Jan. 1994.
  97. 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.
  98. William Silvert. 1994. Modelling environmental aspects of mariculture: problems of scale and communication. Fisken og Havet, vol. 13, p. 61-68.
  99. 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.
  100. William Silvert. 1994. Putting management models on the manager's desktop. J. Biol. Systems 2(4):519-527.
  101. William Silvert. 1994. Simulation models of finfish farms. J. Appl. Ichthyol. 10: 349-352.
  102. William Silvert. 1994. Spatial Scales of Mariculture Impacts. DFO Aquaculture Workshop, BIO, 18 Jan. 1994.
  103. 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.
  104. William Silvert. 1994. The Revolution in Ecology and Population Dynamics. Presentation at a Symposium in Honour of Peter J. Wangersky, Dalhousie University, July 1994.
    1995
  105. 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.
  106. 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.
  107. William Silvert. 1995. Is the logistic equation a Lotka-Volterra model?. Ecological Modelling 77:95-96.
  108. William Silvert. 1995. Modelling Environmental Interactions of Mariculture. Proc. ICES Annual Science Conference, C. M. 1995/R:6 (Sess. R).
  109. 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).
    1996
  110. 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.
  111. William Silvert and J. W. Sowles. 1996. Modelling Environmental Impacts of Marine Finfish Aquaculture. J. Appl. Ichthyology 12: 75-81.
  112. William Silvert. 1996. Size-aggregation in models of aquatic ecosystems. Science of the Total Environment 183: 107-114.
  113. William Silvert. 1996. Complexity. J. Biol. Systems 4: 585-591.
    1997
  114. William Silvert. 1997. Ecological impact classification with fuzzy sets. Ecological Modelling 96: 1-10.
  115. William Silvert. 1997. The role of interactions in long-term population cycles. Environmental Modelling and Assessment 2: 49-54.
  116. 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.
  117. 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.

  118. Gordon, D. C. Jr., P. D. Keizer, P. Lawton, R. J. Rutherford and W. L. Silvert. 1997. Assessing the productive capacity of fish habitat: synopsis of current methods used in estuarine and marine habitats, Maritimes Region. In Proc. DFO Workshop on Research Priorities to Improve Methods for Assessing Productive Capacity for Fish Habitat Management and Impact Assessment, Sidney, B. C., May 13-15, 1996. Can. Tech. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 2147. v+122 p. C. D. Levings, C. K. Minns and F. Aitkens, eds.


    1998

  119. 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.
  120. William Silvert. 1998. The Attenuation Problem. Bulletin of the Canadian Society for Theoretical Biology, Spring 1998.
  121. 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.
  122. 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.
  123. William Silvert. 1998. Power-Law Relationships in Ecology. Submitted to the Int. Symp. on Power-Law Modelling of Biological Systems, Oeiras, Portugal, 4-7 Oct. 1998.
    1999
  124. 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.
  125. William Silvert. 1999. Fuzzy Logic and Ecological Indices. PowerPoint presentation at meeting of ICES Working Group on Zooplankton Ecology, Reykjavik, Iceland, April 1999.
  126. William Silvert. 1999. Fuzzy Logic in Natural Resource Modelling. PowerPoint presentation at Resource Modelling Association meeting in Halifax, NS, July 1999.
  127. William Silvert. 1999. Modelling as a Discipline. Keynote address at ICES Young Scientists Conference in Gilleleje, Denmark, 20 November 1999. An expanded version of this paper was published in Int. J. General Systems in 2001. See also a seminar given at IPIMAR (PowerPoint) in February, 1999.
    2000
  128. 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.
  129. 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.
  130. 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.
    2001
  131. William Silvert and Chris Cromey. 2001. Modelling Impacts. In: Environmental Impacts of Aquaculture, K. D. Black (ed.), Sheffield Academic Press, Sheffield, p. 154-181.
  132. 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.
  133. William Silvert. 2001. Modelling as a Discipline. Int. J. General Systems 30(3): 261-282. A Polish translation was published  in the "Projektowanie i Systemy" volume XVII in 2004.
  134. William Silvert. 2001. Impact on habitats: determining what is acceptable. In: Marine Aquaculture and the Environment: A Meeting for Stakeholders in the Northeast, M. F. Tlusty, D. A. Bengston, H. O. Halvorson, S. D. Oktay, J. B. Pearce and R. B. Rheault (eds.), Cape Cod Press, Falmouth, Massachusetts, p. 16-40.
  135. Silvert, William. 2001. Scientific Overview of the ESSA Project. In: Hargrave, B.T. and G. A. Phillips (Editors). 2001. Environmental Studies for Sustainable Aquaculture (ESSA): 2001 Workshop Report. Can Tech. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 2352: viii + 73 pp. P. 60-68.
  136. Silvert, William. 2001. A Bifurcation Model of Speciation Due to Environmental Change. Paper presented at WITA'2001, the First Workshop on Information Technologies Application to problems of biodiversity and dynamics of ecosystems in North Eurasia, Novosibirsk, July 2001. To be published.
  137. Silvert, William. 2001. Confronting the Complexity of HAB (Harmful Algal Bloom) Dynamics. Presentation to LIFEHAB Workshop, Majorca, Spain, October 2001. In press.
  138. Castro, Margarida, Artur Araújo, Pedro Monteiro and William Silvert. 2001. The Efficacy of Releasing Caught Nephrops as a Management Measure. Presented at: Life histories, assessment and management of crustacean fisheries, A Coruña, Spain, October 2001. Study C1/98/081 for the European Commission. Centre of Marine Sciences (CCMar), University of Algarve, Portugal. 42 pp. Published with slight changes in Fisheries Research (see below).
    2002
  139. 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 be published separately.

  140. Silvert, William. 2002. Confronting the Complexity of HAB (Harmful Algal Bloom) Dynamics. Presentation to LIFEHAB Workshop, Majorca, Spain, October 2001.  In : EUR 20361 – LIFEHAB : Life history of microalgal species causing harmful blooms. European Commission, Luxemburg, p. 109-111.

  141. Murta, Alberto G., and William Silvert. 2002. A framework to put in practice a precautionary approach to fisheries assessment based on fuzzy set theory. Working document presented to the ICES Study Group on the Precautionary Approach in Lisbon, March 4th-8th 2002.
    2003

  142. Silvert, W. 2003. The Meaning of Biodiversity? Presentation at the European Maine Biolgy Symposium (EMBS 38) in Aveiro, Portugal, September 2003.

  143. Silvert, W. 2003. Modelling the Environmental Impacts of Marine Aquaculture. Presentation to the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Strategic Management of Marine Ecosystems held in Sophia Antipolis, France, in October 2003. Published in 2005 (see below).
     2004

  144. Silvert, W. 2004. Complexity and Allometry. Presentation at the International Conference on Complex Systems in May 2004.

  145. Silvert, W. 2004. Speciation through Bifurcation. Presentation at the International Conference on Complex Systems in May 2004.

  146. Silvert, W. 2004. Scientific Overview of the ESSA Project. In: Hargrave, B.T. (ed.) Environmental Studies for Sustainable Aquaculture (ESSA): 2004 Symposium Report. Can Tech. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 2542: p. 66-72.

    147. 2005

  147. Silvert, W. 2005. Modelling the Environmental Impacts of Marine Aquaculture. In: Strategic Management of Marine Ecosystems, E. Levner, I Linkov and J.-M. Proth, eds. Springer, p. 109-125.

  148. Hargrave, B.T., W. Silvert and P.D. Keizer. 2005. Assessing and managing environmental risks associated with marine finfish aquaculture, p. 433-462. In: B.T. Hargrave (ed.) Environmental Effects of Marine Finfish Aquaculture, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.


    149. 2006

  149. Moustakas, A., W. Silvert and A. Dimitromanolakis. 2006. A spatially explicit learning model of migratory fish and fishers for evaluating closed areas. Ecological Modelling 192: 245-258.

  150. McKindsey, C. W., H. Thetmeyer, T. Landry and W. Silvert. 2006. Review of recent carrying capacity models for bivalve culture and recommendations for research and management. Aquaculture 261: 451–462.

  151. Moustakas, A., and W. Silvert. 2010. Spatial and temporal effects on the efficacy of marine protected areas: implications from an individual based model. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment (in press).
     Submitted

  152. Silvert, W. 2006? Fuzzy Measures of Environmental Impact. In: Fuzzy Sets in Environmental Sciences.  Odeh, I. O. A., and McBratney, A. B., eds. Elsevier (submitted, but the book project seems to have been cancelled).

  153. Silvert, W. 2006? Managing Fisheries in the Face of Uncertainty. Chapter in a book on fisheries management edited by Gary Sharp and Leonid Klyashtorin (submitted, but the book project seems to have been cancelled).

  154. Silvert, W., and A. Murta. 2006? Modelling Approaches. Chapter in a book on fisheries management edited by Gary Sharp and Leonid Klyashtorin (submitted, but the book project seems to have been cancelled).

  155. Silvert, W. Unpublished. The Role of Copepods in Marine Ecosystem Models. (rejected).

  156. Silvert, W., and A. Moustakas. 2011? The development over time of Marine Protected Areas. (submitted).

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