Description of biologging instrument impacts from scoping literature review

Over the last six decades, the biologging research community has reduced instrument effects on study animals by miniaturizing devices, employing sophisticated release mechanisms, and developing other novel technological advancements. However, biologging devices can still impact animal physiology, behavior, and demography - the very biological metrics the instruments are meant to measure. Recent meta-analyses have emphasized the subjectivity of field-wide “rules of thumb” such as the 3% rule, but opportunities to quantify effects more objectively can be expensive or impossible to implement when instrumenting new species. There is therefore a time-sensitive need for systematic reporting of biologging instrument characteristics based on known effects to animal welfare and data quality. We used 202 biologging impact studies from the last thirty years to draw broad, multispecies connections between instrument characteristics and animal physiology, behavior, and/or demography. We build on imp..., , # Description of biologging instrument impacts from scoping literature review

Dataset DOI: [10.5061/dryad.bcc2fqzsp](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.bcc2fqzsp)

## Description of the data and file structure

Non-systematic literature review of biologging studies. 

### Files and variables

#### File: bestprac.qmd

**Description:** Markdown document with code to reproduce figures.

#### File: litreview-update.csv

**Description:** 

##### Variables

* key: Unique study ID.
* transport: the transport modality of the animal (walk, swim, fly, or multiple)
* species: Scientific name of the species being studied. Cells are blank when a project looked at more than 10 species. 
* common_name: Common name of the species being studied. Cells contain the number of species studied instead when a project looked at more than 10 species. 
* impact: Type of impact studied (Demography, behavior, or physiology). May be multiple.
* impact_found: Y/N if impacts were found in any of the areas studied.
* mult...,