paleotree: an R package for paleontological and phylogenetic analyses of evolution Academic Article

abstract

• Summary1.paleotree is a library of functions for the R statistical computing environment dedicated to analyses that combine paleontological and phylogenetic data sets, particularly the timescaling of phylogenetic trees, which include extinct fossil lineages.2.The functions included in this library focus on simulating paleontological data sets, measuring sampling rates, timescaling cladograms of fossil taxa and plotting historical diversity curves.3.I describe the capabilities and analytical basis of the functions in paleotree by presenting two examples. The first example showcases the simulation capabilities and plotting the output as diversity curves. The second example demonstrates timescaling a cladogram of fossil taxa and estimating sampling rates and completeness from temporal ranges.

authors

• Bapst, David

published proceedings

• METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

altmetric score

• 25.2

author list (cited authors)

• Bapst, D. W.

citation count

• 378

complete list of authors

• Bapst, David W

publication date

• October 2012

publisher

• Wiley  Publisher

keywords

• Birth-death Models
• Comparative Methods
• Diversification
• Macroevolution
• Paleobiology

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2012.00223.x

start page

• 803

end page

• 807

volume

• 3

issue

• 5

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-210x.2012.00223.x