Publication and use of genetics tools in conservation management applications: a systematic review

Genetic tools are used in applied conservation management for taxonomic identification, delineation of management units, management of wild populations, captive breeding and reintroduction, and control of invasive species, disease, and hybridisation. 
To assess the extent to which genetics tools are being used for applied conservation management, we conducted a systematic literature review of over 53,767 papers focussing on wildlife research that reported results on species delineation, translocations, and population augmentation. We synthesised information on papers that used genetics tools in an expressly applied manner across all wildlife species. 
We found that the application of genetics tools in conservation management was biased towards fishes, mammals, and birds and northern hemisphere locations, especially the USA and Europe. 
Despite genetics tools being a highly published topic, it was difficult to find published applications of these tools in both the primary and the grey l..., Publications in the field of conservation genetics that use applied genetics tools for the management of a species were identified through a search of Google, Google Scholar, Medline, SciELO, and Scopus databases using the following terms: wildlife AND “conservation genetics”, “applied conservation genetics”, “conservation genetics management”, \"conservation genomics\" \"conservation genetics\" and \"invertebrates\", “conservation genetics” and “fisheries management”, new species “conservation management” “DNA barcoding” -fungi -plants, new species “applied conservation” “DNA barcoding” -fungi -plants, from the dates 1980–2020 (inclusive). We used an iterative approach to keywords, selecting new keywords as new papers were obtained, workshopping what words worked, and supplementing the searched datasets with targeted journal searches (Animal Conservation, Annual Reviews, Applied Ecology, Basic and Applied Ecology, Biological Conservation, Biodiversity and Conservation, Conservation Biology, ...,