Literature compilation for: The rise of animal biotelemetry and genetics research data integration

The advancement and availability of innovative animal biotelemetry and genomic technologies are improving our understanding of how the movements of individuals influence gene flow within and between populations and ultimately drive evolutionary and ecological processes. There is a growing body of work that is integrating what were once disparate fields of biology, and here we reviewed the published literature up until January 2023 (139 papers) to better understand the drivers of this research and how it is improving our knowledge of animal biology. The review showed that the predominant drivers for this research were: i) understanding how individual-based movements affect animal populations, ii) analyzing the relationship between genetic relatedness and social structuring, and iii) studying how the landscape affects the flow of genes, and how this is impacted by environmental change. However, there was a divergence between taxa as to the most prevalent research aim, and the methodologie..., We carried out a literature search through January 2023. We used Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar to discover published manuscripts that reported the use of both animal telemetry techniques and genetics methods. We carried out one search for each taxon (i.e., amphibian, bird or avian, fish, mammal, reptile) using specific search terms for both telemetry and genetics (see Appendix 2). Since not all papers are openly available in a full-text format, we only searched in the title, keywords, and abstracts. This returned a total of 398 manuscripts.
To further refine the Web of Science and Scopus search, we used the 'revtools' package in R-project (v 4.0.2) (Westgate, 2019). We imported the 398 references into R studio (v 1.3.1056), removed duplicates, and used the screen_abstracts function to manually select only those papers where the title or abstract explicitly mentioned the use of both biotelemetry and genetics techniques. After the main author read the full text of the selected...,