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Succession financing in family firms

Koropp, Christian ; Grichnik, Dietmar ; Gygax, André

In: Small Business Economics, 2013, vol. 41, no. 2, p. 315-334

Université de Fribourg

Top predators affect the composition of naive protist communities, but only in their early-successional stage

Zander, Axel ; Gravel, Dominique ; Bersier, Louis-Félix ; Gray, Sarah M.

In: Oecologia, 2016, vol. 180, no. 2, p. 519–528

Introduced top predators have the potential to disrupt community dynamics when prey species are naive to predation. The impact of introduced predators may also vary depending on the stage of community development. Early-succession communities are likely to have small-bodied and fast-growing species, but are not necessarily good at defending against predators. In contrast, late-succession...

Université de Fribourg

Succession in the aquatic Sarracenia purpurea community : deterministic or driven by contingency?

Gray, Sarah M.

In: Aquatic Ecology, 2012, vol. 46, no. 4, p. 487-499

The development of a community through time, or succession, is generally described as the orderly replacement of species until a deterministic, stable endpoint is reached. However, stochastic factors, coupled with intrinsic biotic factors, such as herbivory or predation, can cause communities within the same habitat to become highly dissimilar in composition. Much research on the succession of...