[10] 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.
[13] Experimental studies on the effects of recruitment are numerous in forest and annual plant systems.
[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).