paleotree (version 1.8.2)

simFossilTaxa_SRCond: Simulating Taxa in the Fossil Record, Conditioned on Sampling Rate

Description

Function for simulating taxon ranges and relationships under various models of evolution, conditioned on creating clades large enough to sample some average number of taxa at some sampling rate

Usage

simFossilTaxa_SRCond(r, avgtaxa, p, q, anag.rate = 0, prop.bifurc = 0, 
    prop.cryptic = 0, nruns = 1, mintime = 1, maxtime = 1000, minExtant = 0, 
    maxExtant = NULL, count.cryptic = FALSE, print.runs = FALSE, plot = FALSE)

Arguments

r

Instantaneous sampling rate per time unit.

avgtaxa

Desired average number of taxa.

p

Instantaneous rate of speciation/branching.

q

Instantaneous rate of extinction.

anag.rate

Instantaneous rate of pseudoextinction/anagensis.

prop.bifurc

Proportion of morphological branching by bifurcating cladogenesis relative to budding cladogenesis.

prop.cryptic

Proportion of cryptic speciation by relative to morphological branching, such as bifurcating and budding.

nruns

Number of datasets to be output.

mintime

Minimum time units to run any given simulation before stopping.

maxtime

Maximum time units to run any given simulation before stopping.

minExtant

Minimum number of living taxa allowed at end of simulations.

maxExtant

Maximum number of living taxa allowed at end of simulations.

count.cryptic

If TRUE, cryptic taxa are counted as seperate taxa for conditioning.

print.runs

If TRUE, prints the proportion of simulations accepted for output to the terminal.

plot

If TRUE, plots the diversity curves of accepted simulations.

Value

• This function gives back a list containing nruns number of taxa datasets, where each element is a matrix. If nruns=1, the output is not a list but just a single matrix. Sampling has not been simulated in the output for either function; the output represents the 'true' history of the simualted clade. For each dataset, the output is a six column per-taxon matrix where all entries are numbers, with the first column being the taxon ID, the second being the ancestral taxon ID (the first taxon is NA for ancestor), the third column is the first appearance date of a species in absolute time, the fourth column is the last appearance data and the fifth column records whether a species is still extant at the time the simulation terminated (a value of 1 indicates a taxon is still alive, a value of 0 indicates the taxon is extinct). The sixth column (named "looks.like") gives information about the morphological distinguishability of taxa; if they match the taxon ID, they are not cryptic. If they do not match, then this column identifies which taxon id they would be identified as. Each matrix of simulated data also has rownames, generally of the form "t1" and "t2", where the number is the taxon id. Cryptic taxa are instead named in the form of "t1.2" and "t5.3", where the first number is the taxon which they are a cryptic descendant of (i.e. column 6 of the matrix, "looks.like"). The second number, after the period, is the rank order of taxa in that cryptic group of taxa. Taxa which are the common ancestor of a cryptic lineage are also given a unique naming convention, of the form "t1.1" and "t5.1", where the first number is the taxon id and the second number communicates that this is the first species in a cryptic lineage. As with many functions in the paleotree library, absolute time is always decreasing, i.e. the present day is zero.

Details

simFossilTaxa_SRCond is a wrapper for simFossilTaxa for when clades of a particular size are desired, post-sampling. simFossilTaxa simulates a birth-death process (Kendall, 1948; Nee, 2006), but unlike most functions for this implemented in R, this function enmeshes the simulation of speciation and extinction with explicit models of how lineages are morphologically differentiated, as morphotaxa are the basic units of paleontological estimates of diversity and phylogenetics. For more details on the workings of simFossilTaxa and many of the arguments involved, please see the help file for simFossilTaxa (simFossilTaxa). simFossilTaxa_SRCond first calculates the expected proportion of taxa sampled, given the sampling rate and the rates which control lineage termination: extinction, anagenesis and bifurcation. The average original clade size needed to produce, on average, a given number of sampled taxa (the argument 'avgtaxa') is calculated with the following equation: $N = avgtaxa / (r / (r + (q + anag.rate + (prop.bifurc * p)) ))$ We will call that quantity N. Note that the quantity (prop.bifurc * p) describes the rate of bifurcation when there is no cryptic cladogenesis, as prop.bifurc is the ratio of budding to bifurcating cladogenesis. This equation will diverge in ways that are not easily predicted as the rate of cryptic speciation increases. Note, as of version 1.5, this equation was altered to the form above. The previous form was similar and at values of avgtaxa greater than 10 or so, produces almost identical values. The above is preferred for its relationship to taxonomic completeness (Solow and Smith, 1997). Next, this value is used with simFossilTaxa, where mintaxa is set to N and maxtaxa set to 2*N. simFossilTaxa_SRcond will generally produce simulated datasets that are generally of that size or larger post-sampling (although there can be some variance). Some combinations of parameters may take an extremely long time to find large enough datasets. Some combinations may produce very strange datasets that may have weird structure that is only a result of the conditioning (for example, the only clades that have many taxa when net diversification is low or negative will have lots of very early divergences, which could impact analyses). Needless to say, conditioning can be very difficult.

References

Kendall, D. G. 1948 On the Generalized "Birth-and-Death" Process. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics 19(1):1--15. Nee, S. 2006 Birth-Death Models in Macroevolution. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 37(1):1--17. Solow, A. R., and W. Smith. 1997 On Fossil Preservation and the Stratigraphic Ranges of Taxa. Paleobiology 23(3):271--277.

See Also

simFossilTaxa, sampleRanges, simPaleoTrees, taxa2phylo, taxa2cladogram

Examples

set.seed(444)

avgtaxa <- 50
r <- 0.5

#using the SRcond version
taxa <- simFossilTaxa_SRCond(r=r,p=0.1,q=0.1,nruns=20,avgtaxa=avgtaxa)
#now let's use sampleRanges and count number of sampled taxa
ranges <- lapply(taxa,sampleRanges,r=r)
ntaxa <- sapply(ranges,function(x) sum(!is.na(x[,1])))
hist(ntaxa)
mean(ntaxa)
#works okay... some parameter combinations are difficult to get right number of taxa

layout(1)