Recruitment (biology)
When discussing population dynamics, behavioral ecology, and cell biology, recruitment refers to several different biological processes. In population dynamics, recruitment is the process by which new individuals are added to a population, whether by birth and maturation or by immigration.[1] When discussing behavioral ecology and animal communication, recruitment is communication that is intended to add members of a group to specific tasks.[2] Finally, when discussing cell biology, recruitment is the process by which cells are selected for certain tasks.[3]
Recruitment in population dynamics
Definition and importance
In population dynamics and community ecology, recruitment is the process by which individuals are added to a population.
Common study systems
Aquatic systems
Recruitment can be an important factor in predicting future population growth potential. For this reason, and due to their economic importance, recruitment has commonly been studied in fishery systems.[11][12] While experimental work has been done in aquatic systems, dozens of papers have been published in the last few decades to model recruitment in both marine and freshwater aquatic environments.[13]
Forest systems
Experimental studies on the effects of recruitment are numerous in forest and annual plant systems.[1][4][5]
Recruitment in behavioral ecology
In behavioral ecology and studies of animal communication, recruitment is the process by which individuals in a social group direct other individuals to do certain tasks.[2] This is often achieved through the use of recruitment pheromones that direct anywhere from one to several hundred individuals to important resources, like food or nesting sites.[2] Recruitment is practiced in a wide variety of eusocial taxa, most notably in hymenoptera (the ants, bees, and wasps) and termites but also in social caterpillars, beetles, and even a species of naked mole rats (Heterocephalus glaber).[2]
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