New long-term experiments that yield recurrent inventory data, perhaps at fine spatio-temporal scales, could improve these concepts and contribute to a better understanding of the spatio-temporal changes of mixing effects in different species assemblages along multiple ecological gradients.
When people encounter new ideas, they need to adapt their own concepts and contribute to a collaborative development of understanding (D. B. Clark & Sampson, 2007).
SDM: Developed the concept and contributed to drafting the manuscript.
SD contributed to the concept and contributed to drafting the manuscript.
EH initiated the study concept and contributed to interpret findings and comment on the article.
AB developed the concept and contributed to the interpretation of the data.
CB, ES, LT, JJ and JH participated in the design of the study concept and contributed to the protocol.
As Chief Investigators on the program grant Transition Care: Innovation and Evidence, authors IDC, MC, LCG (Gray), SEK and LCG (Giles) developed the study design concept and contributed to the writing.
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/14/433/prepub Dr. Jacques Le Lorier, MD, PhD; Professor, Department of Medicine & Pharmacology, University of Montreal was involved in the elaboration of the initial concept, and contributed to the protocol design and discussion of the statistical analysis plan.
AHS contributed to the clinical assessment of the participants, took part in the discussion of neuropsychological concepts under study and contributed to revising the manuscript critically for intellectual content.
