Category	Description
Research aim
Characterizing species interactions	Studies aimed at analyzing interspecific interactions.
Quantifying the impact of environmental change	Studies aimed at analyzing how environmental change affects population processes.
Understanding animal movement	Studies aimed at studying how animals move to respond to their environment (e.g., dispersal or migration movements).
Gene flow and adaptive divergence	Studies aimed at understanding how the landscape affects the flow of genes.
Altruism and kin selection	Studies aimed at analyzing the relationship between genetic relatedness and social structure.
Mechanisms of pathogen transmission	Studies aimed at understanding host‐pathogen dynamics.
Genotype: phenotype correlations	Studies aimed at analyzing the correlation between phenotypic and genotypic variation.
Gene expression	Studies aimed at linking gene expression patterns to phenotypic differences.
Mating systems as drivers of movement	Studies aimed at understanding reproductive strategies through the study of individual movement patterns and measures of relatedness.
Telemetry statistics
Home range	Analyses focusing on examining how animals are using the space.
Dispersal	Analyses focusing on distance measures.
Behavioral activity	Analyses focusing on profiles or patterns of movement.
Genetic statistics
Population‐level genetic structure	Genetic differentiation metrics using population allele frequencies.
Individual‐level spatial genetic structure	Spatial analyses taking individuals as the focal unit.
Genetic tagging	Mark–recapture approach using the genetic identity of each individual.
Individual assignment to populations	Process of genetically assigning individuals to putative populations of origin, according to genetic similarities between individuals.
Genetic covariates of dispersal data	Association analyses between individual genetic diversity and observed dispersal behavior.
Taxonomic classification	Use of genetic material for taxonomic classification.
Gene expression	Analysis of mRNA gene expression patterns.
Pathogen screen	Screen of the genetic material to detect pathogen genes.

Note : Description of the categories within each variable included in the data analysis. The categories for the research aim were extracted from the Shafer et al. ( 2016 ) paper, except for the aim called “mating systems as drivers of movement.”