The role of three‐dimensional structural complexity in shaping communities has been increasingly studied, and evidence indicates that vertical stratification favors coexistence through niche partitioning. Despite the clear relationship between three‐dimensional structure and community assemblages, its role in shaping metacommunity processes is still unclear. To address this knowledge gap, we carried out a translocation experim...

Warming and ocean acidification are currently critical global change drivers for marine ecosystems due to their complex and irreversible effects on the ecology and evolution of marine communities. Changes in the chemistry and the temperature of the ocean impact the biological performance of marine resources by affecting their energy budget and thus imposing energetic restrictions and trade-offs on their survival, growth, and r...

Recent studies of spatially explicit metapopulation models have shown the existence of complex transient behaviour (supertransients and mesotransients) characterized by spontaneous changes in the system's dynamics after thousands or hundreds of generations, respectively. Their detection in simple ecological models has been taken as evidence that transient dynamics may be common in nature. In this study, we explore the generali...