“…Despite the fact that all natural populations suffer temporal environmental fluctuations on some scale, experimental and theoretical studies of population responses to external fluctuations remain relatively rare [8,9,10], [12,13,14,15,16,17], [20,21,22,23,24], [28,29,30], [32], and [35,36,36,38,39,40,41]. To study the effects of fluctuating environments on population dynamics, one can deliberately fluctuate environmental parameters in controlled laboratory experiments.…”