“…In the article by Arumugam et al [16], we see rate-induced tipping in a spatially coupled ecological system, leading to the extinction of a metacommunity. In the context of noise-mediated transition, Cabrera et al [17] report a study on a noisemediated transition, which shows how to avoid an extinguishing transition by a process that is mediated by a coupling between the deterministic and stochastic time scales close to the stability boundary.…”