Papers

  1. AI-assisted Living Evidence Databases for Conservation Science

    Sadiq Jaffer, William Morgan, Sam Reynolds, et al. Cambridge Open Engage, 2025

    The flagship pipeline: a self-hosted, end-to-end system that ingests, screens, and extracts structured data from the literature. It achieves 97% recall against a large manual review.

    doi:10.33774/coe-2025-rmsqf

  2. Will AI speed up literature reviews or derail them entirely?

    Sam Reynolds, Alec Christie, Lynn Dicks, et al. Nature, 2025

    AI-generated “poison” papers threaten evidence synthesis. Traceable AI pipelines can form part of the defence.

    doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02069-w

  3. Careful design of Large Language Model pipelines enables expert-level retrieval

    Radhika Iyer, Alec Philip Christie, Anil Madhavapeddy, et al. PLOS ONE, 2025

    Well-designed hybrid retrieval pipelines reach expert-level performance on conservation evidence questions. Off-the-shelf LLMs fall short.

    doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0323563

  4. Conservation changed but not divided

    Sam A. Reynolds, et al. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2025

    AI can unite rather than divide conservation if it is built around human expertise, openness, and capacity-building.

    doi:10.1016/j.tree.2025.04.002

  5. The potential for AI to revolutionize conservation: a horizon scan

    Sam Reynolds, et al. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2024

    A horizon scan of where AI could most transform conservation practice, covering both opportunities and risks.

    doi:10.1016/j.tree.2024.11.013