Plan of management for the Miaboolya Beach fish habitat protection area

The aim of this management plan is to protect and rehabilitate the aquatic habitat of Miaboolya Beach, the associated mangrove ecosystem, and involve the community in their management. By setting the area aside as a FHPA, the Department of Fisheries has established a framework to promote and actively conserve all the habitats within the Miaboolya system, as described in Section 3 of this document

Plan of management for the Miaboolya Beach fish habitat protection area

The aim of this management plan is to protect and rehabilitate the aquatic habitat of Miaboolya Beach, the associated mangrove ecosystem, and involve the community in their management. By setting the area aside as a FHPA, the Department of Fisheries has established a framework to promote and actively conserve all the habitats within the Miaboolya system, as described in Section 3 of this document

Quantitative proteomic analysis of the response of the wood-rot fungus, Schizophyllum commune to the biocontrol fungus, Trichoderma viride

Aims:  Investigation of changes in the protein profile of the wood-rot fungus, Schizophyllum commune when paired against the biocontrol fungus, Trichoderma viride for 48 hours. Methods and Results:  Variations in protein profile resulting from contact with T. viride were assessed by spot separation using 2-Dimensional protein gel electrophoresis followed by MALDI-TOF-TOF MS/MS protein identification. Contact with T. viride elicited a systematic response by S. commune, characterized by marked increases in proteins involved in transcription and translation (61%) and cell wall/hyphal biogenesis and stabilisation (17%), whereas metabolism-associated proteins decreased in amounts (64%). T. viride however, exhibited typical mycoparasitic behaviour with increases in the amounts of proteins involved in proteolysis and carbohydrate metabolism. Conclusions:  The protein profile of S. commune confronted by T. viride indicates the up-regulation of mechanisms specifically targeted at the mycoparasitic machinery of T. viride particularly cell wall lysis and antibiosis. Significance and Impact of the Study:  The proteomic responses observed in S. commune may occur in natural environments, providing an insight to the mechanism involved in conferring resistance to mycoparasitic attack. This study therefore, warrants further investigation for the targeted design of more robust biocontrol agents. © 2012 The Authors Letters in Applied Microbiology © 2012 The Society for Applied Microbiology

Alternatives to cyanide in the gold mining industry: what prospects for the future

This paper reviews a series of alternative lixiviant systems for the recovery of gold from ores and concentrates. For over 100 years, cyanide has been the leach reagent of choice in gold mining because of its high gold recoveries, robustness and relatively low costs. The environmental damages resulting from its mismanagement, however, have initiated widespread research aimed at identifying and developing less toxic leaching agents. The most widely-researched alternative lixiviants for gold ores are examined in this paper, but it is evident that none has yet made any significant inroad into the dominant position of cyanide as the reagent of choice at the vast majority of gold mines worldwide. (c) 2005 Published by Elsevier Ltd