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Introduction

In this tutorial we demonstrate how users can perform ancestral state reconstruction using the functions implemented in DAISIEprep, or, alternatively, by importing ancestral range reconstructions obtained using methods from other packages.

Using DAISIEprep’s min and asr algorithms

The core feature of DAISIEprep is the function extract_island_species(), which allows one to extract the island data expected as input by DAISIE’s functions from a phylogeny with data regarding presence / absence of each present-day species from the island. The function automatically delineates and extracts clades formed by island species within a complete mainland + island phylogeny, and attempt to estimate the age of colonisation for each of these clades.

The default option of the function is the min algorithm, which performs the data extraction in a manner consistent with DAISIE’s assumptions. However, there may be cases where it is not desirable to use this algorithm, particularly if some of DAISIE’s assumptions are at odds with the clade at hand. For example, consider the following tree:

We have an island clade, comprising species a-f, except for species e which is absent from the island. A parsimonious explanation for this distribution would be a unique colonisation event before the split between the f and a-e lineages, with the island population of species f not diverging from its mainland ancestor, and species e jumping back to the continent. This would result in a single island clade with a unique colonisation time. Yet if we run extract_island_species through this phylogeny:

extract_island_species(phylod, extraction_method = "min")
#> Class:  Island_tbl 
#>   clade_name     status missing_species   col_time col_max_age branching_times
#> 1     bird_a    endemic               0 0.09053720       FALSE              NA
#> 2     bird_b    endemic               0 0.06146596       FALSE    0.016781....
#> 3     bird_d    endemic               0 0.05480904       FALSE              NA
#> 4     bird_f nonendemic               0 0.58496106       FALSE              NA
#>   min_age      species clade_type
#> 1      NA       bird_a          1
#> 2      NA bird_b, ....          1
#> 3      NA       bird_d          1
#> 4      NA       bird_f          1

The algorithm estimates four independent colonisation events. This is because the min algorithm assumes no back-colonisation (from island to mainland), such that the presence of mainland-only species e inside the island-only clade can only be accommodated by the lineage staying on the mainland until the present, with at least three colonisation events leading to species a-d. DAISIE would also not consider a colonisation time before the (a-e)-f split, as any cladogenetic event taking place on the island is assumed to lead to strictly endemic lineages (Valente et al. 2015), while lineage f maintains a population on the mainland.

For such cases where the phylogeny is at odds with the process considered by DAISIE, one may wish to resort to other trait evolution / biogeography model to estimate when and how many times the island was colonised. This requires performing ancestral state reconstruction, to estimate the endemicity status of each internal node in the phylogeny. extract_island_species offers the means to extract island data from a phylogeny with completed node data, setting argument extraction_method = "asr".

The methods that DAISIEprep provides to run ancestral state reconstruction (ASR) are parsimony and the Markov model (Mk) using functionality from the R package castor (Louca and Doebeli 2018). These are provided as standard in the DAISIEprep::add_asr_node_states() function to easily allow a user to run a quick reconstruction of the internal nodes’ endemicity status. The parsimony and the Mk model provide simple models that have been widely used in evolutionary biology since their development. For details on the parsimony method see documentation for castor::asr_max_parsimony() and for details on the Mk model see documentation for castor::asr_mk_model().

Here we show the same example as in the Tutorial vignette to show how both methods are implemented:

set.seed(
  1,
  kind = "Mersenne-Twister",
  normal.kind = "Inversion",
  sample.kind = "Rejection"
)
phylo <- ape::rcoal(10)

phylo$tip.label <- c("bird_a", "bird_b", "bird_c", "bird_d", "bird_e", "bird_f",
                     "bird_g", "bird_h", "bird_i", "bird_j")

phylo <- phylobase::phylo4(phylo)

endemicity_status <- sample(
  x = c("not_present", "endemic", "nonendemic"), 
  size = length(phylobase::tipLabels(phylo)), 
  replace = TRUE,
  prob = c(0.6, 0.2, 0.2)
)

phylod <- phylobase::phylo4d(phylo, as.data.frame(endemicity_status))

# reconstruction using parsimony
phylod_parsimony <- add_asr_node_states(
  phylod = phylod, 
  asr_method = "parsimony")

# reconstruction using Mk model
phylod_parsimony <- add_asr_node_states(
  phylod = phylod, 
  asr_method = "mk"
)
#> Warning in add_asr_node_states(phylod = phylod, asr_method = "mk"): Mk asr
#> method selected but rate model not supplied assuming equal-rates (ER)

For details on the internal workings of the add_asr_node_states() function see appendix at the bottom of this article.

Using ancestral state reconstruction methods from other packages

The min and asr algorithms are implemented in DAISIEprep. However, there are many models developed for the reconstruction of states (traits) on a phylogenetic tree available in other R packages, and it may be more appropriate to use a different type of model for the empirical group being studied. Just as R is developed to allow for packages to extend the language, DAISIEprep is designed to allow each extension of ASR methods for incorporation with key functions (e.g. extract_island_species()).

Here we give examples of three packages that can be used an extensions: diversitree, BioGeoBEARS and corHMM.

diversitree (FitzJohn 2012) is a package containing a suite of State Speciation and Extinction (SSE) model which can reconstruct ancestral states under a model in which the rates of speciation, extinction and transition between states all influence the reconstruction. These models prevent the bias of having many species in a state because of high speciation but a model, such as the Mk model, assumes it is due to high transition rates into that state (see Maddison and Knowles (2006)). The example we give uses the MuSSE model with a three states (island endemic, island non-endemic and not present on the island), and the GeoSSE model that considers presence or absence from two geographic areas (island and mainland). Other SSE models in diversitree can be applied in the same manner.

BioGeoBEARS (Matzke 2013) is a widely used package that includes the DEC and DEC+J models of biogeographic reconstruction. Therefore, it may be that people familiar with these models want to apply them for extracting island colonisations for DAISIE.

Lastly, corHMM (Beaulieu et al. 2013) is a package that implements a hidden markov model of evolution, similar to the Mk model, but can better account for rate heterogeneity by introducing hidden states into the model. Each model can be argued for or against; with the choice influenced by the taxonomic group being studied.

DEC+J

We consider the following randomly generated phylogeny and tip data:

As a first example, we consider the popular DEC (Dispersal-Extinction-Cladogenesis) model (Ree and Smith 2008) with founder-event speciation (DEC+J, Matzke (2013)), implemented in R in the biogeobears package (Matzke 2013).

require(BioGeoBEARS)
#> Loading required package: BioGeoBEARS
require(ape) # BioGeoBEARS does not load ape::has.singles() which it calls
#> Loading required package: ape

BioGeoBEARS revolves around an object, BioGeoBEARS_run, which stores input data, the structure of the model to optimise, and control parameters for optimisation.

# Default structure of the BioGeoBEARS object
bgb_run <- BioGeoBEARS::define_BioGeoBEARS_run()
bgb_run
#> $geogfn
#> [1] "/home/runner/work/_temp/Library/BioGeoBEARS/extdata/Psychotria_geog.data"
#> 
#> $trfn
#> [1] "/home/runner/work/_temp/Library/BioGeoBEARS/extdata/Psychotria_5.2.newick"
#> 
#> $abbr
#> [1] "default"
#> 
#> $description
#> [1] "defaults"
#> 
#> $BioGeoBEARS_model_object
#> An object of class "BioGeoBEARS_model"
#> Slot "params_table":
#>          type    init      min      max     est                note
#> d        free 0.01000  1.0e-12  5.00000 0.01000               works
#> e        free 0.01000  1.0e-12  5.00000 0.01000               works
#> a       fixed 0.00000  1.0e-12  5.00000 0.00000               works
#> b       fixed 1.00000  1.0e-12  1.00000 1.00000 non-stratified only
#> x       fixed 0.00000 -2.5e+00  2.50000 0.00000               works
#> n       fixed 0.00000 -1.0e+01 10.00000 0.00000               works
#> w       fixed 1.00000 -1.0e+01 10.00000 1.00000               works
#> u       fixed 0.00000 -1.0e+01 10.00000 0.00000               works
#> j       fixed 0.00000  1.0e-05  2.99999 0.00000               works
#> ysv       3-j 2.99999  1.0e-05  3.00000 2.99999               works
#> ys    ysv*2/3 1.99999  1.0e-05  2.00000 1.99999               works
#> y     ysv*1/3 1.00000  1.0e-05  1.00000 1.00000               works
#> s     ysv*1/3 1.00000  1.0e-05  1.00000 1.00000               works
#> v     ysv*1/3 1.00000  1.0e-05  1.00000 1.00000               works
#> mx01    fixed 0.00010  1.0e-04  0.99990 0.00010               works
#> mx01j    mx01 0.00010  1.0e-04  0.99990 0.00010               works
#> mx01y    mx01 0.00010  1.0e-04  0.99990 0.00010               works
#> mx01s    mx01 0.00010  1.0e-04  0.99990 0.00010               works
#> mx01v    mx01 0.00010  1.0e-04  0.99990 0.00010               works
#> mx01r   fixed 0.50000  1.0e-04  0.99990 0.50000                  no
#> mf      fixed 0.10000  5.0e-03  0.99500 0.10000                 yes
#> dp      fixed 1.00000  5.0e-03  0.99500 1.00000                 yes
#> fdp     fixed 0.00000  5.0e-03  0.99500 0.00000                 yes
#>                                                                        desc
#> d                         anagenesis: rate of 'dispersal' (range expansion)
#> e                      anagenesis: rate of 'extinction' (range contraction)
#> a           anagenesis: rate of range-switching (i.e. for a standard char.)
#> b                                    anagenesis: exponent on branch lengths
#> x                                   exponent on distance (modifies d, j, a)
#> n                     exponent on environmental distance (modifies d, j, a)
#> w               exponent on manual dispersal multipliers (modifies d, j, a)
#> u            anagenesis: exponent on extinction risk with area (modifies e)
#> j                 cladogenesis: relative per-event weight of jump dispersal
#> ysv                                                     cladogenesis: y+s+v
#> ys                                                        cladogenesis: y+s
#> y       cladogenesis: relative per-event weight of sympatry (range-copying)
#> s              cladogenesis: relative per-event weight of subset speciation
#> v           cladogenesis: relative per-event weight of vicariant speciation
#> mx01                  cladogenesis: controls range size of smaller daughter
#> mx01j                 cladogenesis: controls range size of smaller daughter
#> mx01y                 cladogenesis: controls range size of smaller daughter
#> mx01s                 cladogenesis: controls range size of smaller daughter
#> mx01v                 cladogenesis: controls range size of smaller daughter
#> mx01r                       root: controls range size probabilities of root
#> mf                         mean frequency of truly sampling OTU of interest
#> dp                 detection probability per true sample of OTU of interest
#> fdp   false detection of OTU probability per true taphonomic control sample
#> 
#> 
#> $timesfn
#> [1] NA
#> 
#> $distsfn
#> [1] NA
#> 
#> $dispersal_multipliers_fn
#> [1] NA
#> 
#> $area_of_areas_fn
#> [1] NA
#> 
#> $areas_allowed_fn
#> [1] NA
#> 
#> $areas_adjacency_fn
#> [1] NA
#> 
#> $detects_fn
#> [1] NA
#> 
#> $controls_fn
#> [1] NA
#> 
#> $max_range_size
#> [1] NA
#> 
#> $force_sparse
#> [1] FALSE
#> 
#> $use_detection_model
#> [1] FALSE
#> 
#> $print_optim
#> [1] TRUE
#> 
#> $printlevel
#> [1] 0
#> 
#> $on_NaN_error
#> [1] -1e+50
#> 
#> $wd
#> [1] "/home/runner/work/DAISIEprep/DAISIEprep/vignettes/articles"
#> 
#> $num_cores_to_use
#> [1] NA
#> 
#> $cluster_already_open
#> [1] FALSE
#> 
#> $use_optimx
#> [1] TRUE
#> 
#> $rescale_params
#> [1] FALSE
#> 
#> $return_condlikes_table
#> [1] FALSE
#> 
#> $calc_TTL_loglike_from_condlikes_table
#> [1] TRUE
#> 
#> $calc_ancprobs
#> [1] TRUE
#> 
#> $speedup
#> [1] TRUE
#> 
#> $include_null_range
#> [1] TRUE
#> 
#> $useAmbiguities
#> [1] FALSE
#> 
#> $min_branchlength
#> [1] 1e-06

Many elements of this list are only relevant for advanced options of the model and can be ignored if these features are not used. For example, BioGeoBEARS allows explicit modelling of the connectivity between areas and time-dependent availability of the areas. In this example, we focus on a simple dispersal scenario between two areas (mainland and island), so these elements can be ignored. We direct the interested user to the relevant tutorial on the BioGeoBEARS website.

BioGeoBEARS expects at least two inputs, the phylogeny and the biogeographic data, a matrix of tip states. Both must be supplied as paths to files which will be read when the model is run.

The tree can be supplied in Newick or Nexus format, as a text file.

path_to_phylo <- system.file("extending_asr", "biogeobears_ex_phylo.txt", package = "DAISIEprep")
phylo <- as(phylod, "phylo")
#> Warning in asMethod(object): losing data while coercing phylo4d to phylo
ape::write.tree(phylo, file = path_to_phylo)

bgb_run$trfn <- path_to_phylo

Tip data must be supplied as a text file specifying presence/absence of every tip in each area, in the format used by the PHYLIP sofware suite. We report the full specifications from the BioGeoBEARS tutorial

#######################################################
# Geography file
# Notes:
# 1. This is a PHYLIP-formatted file. This means that in the 
#    first line, 
#    - the 1st number equals the number of rows (species)
#    - the 2nd number equals the number of columns (number of areas)
#    - after a tab, put the areas in parentheses, with spaces: (A B C D)
#
# 1.5. Example first line:
#    10    4    (A B C D)
# 
# 2. The second line, and subsequent lines:
#    speciesA    0110
#    speciesB    0111
#    speciesC    0001
#         ...
# 
# 2.5a. This means a TAB between the species name and the area 0/1s
# 2.5b. This also means NO SPACE AND NO TAB between the area 0/1s.
# 
# 3. See example files at:
#    http://phylo.wikidot.com/biogeobears#files
# 
# 4. Make you understand what a PLAIN-TEXT EDITOR is:
#    http://phylo.wikidot.com/biogeobears#texteditors
#
# 3. The PHYLIP format is the same format used for C++ LAGRANGE geography files.
#
# 4. All names in the geography file must match names in the phylogeny file.
#
# 5. DON'T USE SPACES IN SPECIES NAMES, USE E.G. "_"
#
# 6. Operational taxonomic units (OTUs) should ideally be phylogenetic lineages, 
#    i.e. genetically isolated populations.  These may or may not be identical 
#    with species.  You would NOT want to just use specimens, as each specimen 
#    automatically can only live in 1 area, which will typically favor DEC+J 
#    models.  This is fine if the species/lineages really do live in single areas,
#    but you wouldn't want to assume this without thinking about it at least. 
#    In summary, you should collapse multiple specimens into species/lineages if 
#    data indicates they are the same genetic population.
######################################################

For convenience, we have included a function that writes this file from a phylod object for the simple mainland-island case.

path_to_biogeo <- system.file("extending_asr", "biogeobears_ex_phylo.txt", package = "DAISIEprep")
write_phylip_biogeo_file(phylod, path_to_biogeo)
BioGeoBEARS::getranges_from_LagrangePHYLIP(path_to_biogeo)
#> An object of class "tipranges"
#> numeric(0)
#> Slot "df":
#>        M I
#> bird_a 0 1
#> bird_b 0 1
#> bird_c 0 1
#> bird_d 0 1
#> bird_e 0 1
#> bird_f 0 1
#> bird_g 1 1
#> bird_h 1 0
#> bird_i 0 1
#> bird_j 1 0
#> bird_k 1 0
#> bird_l 1 0
#> bird_m 0 1
#> bird_n 0 1
#> bird_o 0 1
#> bird_p 1 0
#> bird_q 1 0
#> bird_r 1 0
#> bird_s 1 0
#> bird_t 1 0
bgb_run$geogfn <- path_to_biogeo

While we were at it, we have nested this function in write_biogeobears_input(), to prepare both this file and the Newick file above in one command

path_to_phylo <- system.file("extending_asr", "biogeobears_ex_phylo.txt", package = "DAISIEprep")
path_to_biogeo <- system.file("extending_asr", "biogeobears_ex_biogeo.txt", package = "DAISIEprep")
write_biogeobears_input(phylod, path_to_phylo, path_to_biogeo)
#> Warning in asMethod(object): losing data while coercing phylo4d to phylo

bgb_run$trfn <- path_to_phylo
bgb_run$geogfn <- path_to_biogeo

The structure of the model is contained in BioGeoBEARS_model_object. This is simply a table that contains the status (fixed or free), values (initial, min/max boundaries and estimated value if free) and documentation of each parameter of the supermodel.

bgb_run$BioGeoBEARS_model_object
#> An object of class "BioGeoBEARS_model"
#> Slot "params_table":
#>          type    init      min      max     est                note
#> d        free 0.01000  1.0e-12  5.00000 0.01000               works
#> e        free 0.01000  1.0e-12  5.00000 0.01000               works
#> a       fixed 0.00000  1.0e-12  5.00000 0.00000               works
#> b       fixed 1.00000  1.0e-12  1.00000 1.00000 non-stratified only
#> x       fixed 0.00000 -2.5e+00  2.50000 0.00000               works
#> n       fixed 0.00000 -1.0e+01 10.00000 0.00000               works
#> w       fixed 1.00000 -1.0e+01 10.00000 1.00000               works
#> u       fixed 0.00000 -1.0e+01 10.00000 0.00000               works
#> j       fixed 0.00000  1.0e-05  2.99999 0.00000               works
#> ysv       3-j 2.99999  1.0e-05  3.00000 2.99999               works
#> ys    ysv*2/3 1.99999  1.0e-05  2.00000 1.99999               works
#> y     ysv*1/3 1.00000  1.0e-05  1.00000 1.00000               works
#> s     ysv*1/3 1.00000  1.0e-05  1.00000 1.00000               works
#> v     ysv*1/3 1.00000  1.0e-05  1.00000 1.00000               works
#> mx01    fixed 0.00010  1.0e-04  0.99990 0.00010               works
#> mx01j    mx01 0.00010  1.0e-04  0.99990 0.00010               works
#> mx01y    mx01 0.00010  1.0e-04  0.99990 0.00010               works
#> mx01s    mx01 0.00010  1.0e-04  0.99990 0.00010               works
#> mx01v    mx01 0.00010  1.0e-04  0.99990 0.00010               works
#> mx01r   fixed 0.50000  1.0e-04  0.99990 0.50000                  no
#> mf      fixed 0.10000  5.0e-03  0.99500 0.10000                 yes
#> dp      fixed 1.00000  5.0e-03  0.99500 1.00000                 yes
#> fdp     fixed 0.00000  5.0e-03  0.99500 0.00000                 yes
#>                                                                        desc
#> d                         anagenesis: rate of 'dispersal' (range expansion)
#> e                      anagenesis: rate of 'extinction' (range contraction)
#> a           anagenesis: rate of range-switching (i.e. for a standard char.)
#> b                                    anagenesis: exponent on branch lengths
#> x                                   exponent on distance (modifies d, j, a)
#> n                     exponent on environmental distance (modifies d, j, a)
#> w               exponent on manual dispersal multipliers (modifies d, j, a)
#> u            anagenesis: exponent on extinction risk with area (modifies e)
#> j                 cladogenesis: relative per-event weight of jump dispersal
#> ysv                                                     cladogenesis: y+s+v
#> ys                                                        cladogenesis: y+s
#> y       cladogenesis: relative per-event weight of sympatry (range-copying)
#> s              cladogenesis: relative per-event weight of subset speciation
#> v           cladogenesis: relative per-event weight of vicariant speciation
#> mx01                  cladogenesis: controls range size of smaller daughter
#> mx01j                 cladogenesis: controls range size of smaller daughter
#> mx01y                 cladogenesis: controls range size of smaller daughter
#> mx01s                 cladogenesis: controls range size of smaller daughter
#> mx01v                 cladogenesis: controls range size of smaller daughter
#> mx01r                       root: controls range size probabilities of root
#> mf                         mean frequency of truly sampling OTU of interest
#> dp                 detection probability per true sample of OTU of interest
#> fdp   false detection of OTU probability per true taphonomic control sample

BioGeoBEARS is indeed built as a supermodel which parameters can be turned on or off to reproduce biogeographic models like DEC, DIVA, BayArea and/or expand them.

See Fig. 1 in Matzke (2013) for an overview of the supermodel and parameters:

knitr::include_graphics("http://phylo.wdfiles.com/local--files/biogeobears/BioGeoBEARS_supermodel.png")

Note that by default, all parameters but d and e are turned off (i.e., fixed and set to a value such that they cause no effect). That is, by default, BioGeoBEARS_model_object specifies the DEC model.

For this example, we simply modify the model to make j a free parameter, and thus turn the model into DEC+J.

# DEC -> DEC+J
bgb_run$BioGeoBEARS_model_object@params_table$desc[9] <- "free"
bgb_run$BioGeoBEARS_model_object@params_table$init[9] <- 0.01 # same value as d, e

Some further controls:

bgb_run$num_cores_to_use <- 1 # no default value on this one
bgb_run$print_optim <- FALSE # for the sake of the vignette

Once everything is set up, it’s a good idea to check that the input complies to the format expected by BioGeoBEARS with the provided function. Then, we’re ready to run the optimisation:

BioGeoBEARS::check_BioGeoBEARS_run(bgb_run)
#> [1] TRUE
res <- BioGeoBEARS::bears_optim_run(bgb_run)
#> [1] "Note: tipranges_to_tip_condlikes_of_data_on_each_state() is converting a states_list with (0-based) numbers to the equivalent areanames"
#> 
#> Your computer has 4 cores.
#> [1] "parscale:"
#> [1] 1 1
#> 
#> 
#> NOTE: Before running optimx(), here is a test calculation of the data likelihood
#> using calc_loglike_for_optim() on initial parameter values, with printlevel=2...
#> if this crashes, the error messages are more helpful
#> than those from inside optimx().
#> 
#> 
#> calc_loglike_for_optim() on initial parameters loglike=-26.4272
#> 
#> 
#> 
#> Calculation of likelihood on initial parameters: successful.
#> 
#> Now starting Maximum Likelihood (ML) parameter optimization with optimx()...
#> 
#> 
#> 
#> Printing any warnings() that occurred during calc_loglike_for_optim():
#> 
#> 
#> 
#> Results of optimx_scalecheck() below. Note: sometimes rescaling parameters may be helpful for ML searches, when the parameters have much different absolute sizes. This can be attempted by setting BioGeoBEARS_run_object$rescale_params = TRUE.
#> 
#> $lpratio
#> [1] 0
#> 
#> $lbratio
#> [1] 0
#> 
#> Maximizing -- use negfn and neggr
#> Warning in (function (npt = min(n + 2L, 2L * n), rhobeg = NA, rhoend = NA, :
#> unused control arguments ignored
#> 
#> 
#> This is the output from optim, optimx, or GenSA. Check the help on those functions to
#> interpret this output and check for convergence issues:
#> 
#>               p1           p2   value fevals gevals niter convcode  kkt1 kkt2
#> bobyqa 0.3984246 1.106577e-08 -19.384     65     NA    NA        0 FALSE TRUE
#>        xtime
#> bobyqa   0.4

We do get a warning, but apparently this can be ignored.

Marginal probabilities for the ancestral states appear to be found in element $ML_marginal_prob_each_state_at_branch_top_AT_node of the output (from what I infer from the code of the plotting function code). Columns respectively correspond to the posterior probability of the node being present in the first area only (here, mainland, i.e. not present), second area only (island, endemic), or both areas (widespread state, nonendemic). Rows correspond to nodes (including tips!) and their order is the same as in the tree object read from the input Newick file, which may differ from the original tree. To identify the probability associated to each node we need to match the rows with the corresponding tip labels.

# Extract probabilities
asr_likelihoods <- res$ML_marginal_prob_each_state_at_branch_top_AT_node[,-1]
# Need to find which tip label matches each row
tree <- ape::read.tree(res$inputs$trfn)
tip_labels <- tree$tip.label
node_labels <- tree$node.label
if (is.null(node_labels)) node_labels <- rep(NA, length(tip_labels) - 1)
asr_df <- data.frame(
  labels = c(tip_labels, node_labels),
  not_present_prob = asr_likelihoods[,1],
  endemic_prob = asr_likelihoods[,2],
  nondendemic_prob = asr_likelihoods[,3]
)
head(asr_df)
#>   labels not_present_prob endemic_prob nondendemic_prob
#> 1 bird_d                0            1                0
#> 2 bird_e                0            1                0
#> 3 bird_c                0            1                0
#> 4 bird_a                0            1                0
#> 5 bird_b                0            1                0
#> 6 bird_f                0            1                0
tail(asr_df)
#>    labels not_present_prob endemic_prob nondendemic_prob
#> 34   <NA>     6.137318e-13 2.401258e-02     9.759874e-01
#> 35   <NA>     9.474826e-11 1.180088e-10     1.000000e+00
#> 36   <NA>     2.535833e-22 1.000000e+00     2.671022e-11
#> 37   <NA>     1.000000e+00 8.344796e-19     1.776066e-08
#> 38   <NA>     1.000000e+00 8.802463e-23     4.458255e-10
#> 39   <NA>     1.000000e+00 1.529832e-25     9.339950e-11

The code above has been wrapped in a utility function, extract_biogeobears_ancestral_states_probs().

The last step before extracting the island community from the tree is to rule which state each node is in from the probabilities. We provide a convenient function to do this from the output of the previous function:

endemicity_status <- select_endemicity_status(asr_df, method = "max")

By default, (method = "max"), we simply select the state with the highest probability (preferring the last in the event of a tie). method can also be set to "random" to sample states randomly based on the probabilities, which can be of use if one desires to explore the sensibility of downstream DAISIE analyses to the ancestral state reconstruction.

Finally, we recreate the data format expected by extract_island_species() (one state column endemicity_status for tips, one state column island_status for internal nodes) and add it back to the tree data with phylobase’s phylo4d class.

# Add endemicity data
nb_tips <- ape::Ntip(tree)
asr_df$label <- NULL # drop label
asr_df$endemicity_status <- rep(NA, nrow(asr_df))
asr_df$endemicity_status[1:nb_tips] <- endemicity_status[1:nb_tips] 
asr_df$island_status <- rep(NA, nrow(asr_df))
asr_df$island_status[(nb_tips + 1):nrow(asr_df)] <- endemicity_status[(nb_tips + 1):nrow(asr_df)] 

# Rebuild phylod with ancestral states
phylod <- phylobase::phylo4d(tree, all.data = asr_df)
plot_phylod(phylod)

Voilà!

island_clades <- DAISIEprep::extract_island_species(
  phylod = phylod,
  extraction_method = "asr"
)
island_clades@island_tbl$species
#> [[1]]
#>  [1] "bird_d" "bird_e" "bird_c" "bird_a" "bird_b" "bird_f" "bird_i" "bird_g"
#>  [9] "bird_o" "bird_m" "bird_n"
island_clades@island_tbl$branching_times
#> [[1]]
#>  [1] 2.12780098 0.38960848 0.30994875 0.16207082 0.13800731 0.10346994
#>  [7] 0.08406573 0.04477260 0.02586891 0.01218459

MuSSE

SSE-class models explicitly model the inter-dependency between the evolution of a set of traits and evolutionary rates (speciation and extinction). When traits are set to represent geographic areas, such models can be used to model range evolution. For a mainland-island system, we could model the endemicity status as a ternary trait: endemic, non-endemic, or not present on the island.

Discrete-trait models with more than two states are modelled with MuSSE (FitzJohn 2012), which is implemented in package diversitree.

To make the example straightforward and avoid non-convergence issues, we use a tree simulated directly with MuSSE as an example, with three states (mainland/island/both, or not present/endemic/nonendemic) and arbitrary parameter values:

# Simulate a tree under a MuSSE model,
# with arbitrary initial parameter values
pars <- c(
  # lambda1 lambda2 lambda3
  0.2, 0.2, 0.2,
  # mu1 mu2 mu3
  0.02, 0.02, 0.02,
  # q12 q13 q21 q23 q31 q32
  0,  0.1,  0, 0,  0.1, 0.1
)
set.seed(4)
phylo <- diversitree::trees(
  pars,
  type = "musse",
  max.taxa = 20,
  max.t = Inf,
  x0 = 1
)[[1]]

# DAISIEprep requires binomial names
ntips <- ape::Ntip(phylo)
bird_names <- paste0("bird_", letters[1:ntips])
phylo$tip.label <- bird_names
names(phylo$tip.state) <- bird_names

# DAISIEprep requires a mainland outgroup
outgroup_clade <- c("bird_h", "bird_i", "bird_l", "bird_k", "bird_r", "bird_q")
phylo$tip.state[phylo$tip.label %in% outgroup_clade] <- 1 # not_present

The output phylogenetic trees come with simulated states attached at the tips:

phylo$tip.state
#> bird_a bird_b bird_c bird_d bird_e bird_f bird_g bird_h bird_i bird_j bird_k 
#>      1      3      1      3      2      2      2      1      1      1      1 
#> bird_l bird_m bird_n bird_o bird_p bird_q bird_r bird_s bird_t 
#>      1      2      2      2      3      1      1      1      1

Because we’re going to switch back and forth between those single-digit states and the three endemicity status used by DAISIEprep, we have included functions to switch easily between the two:

endemicity_status <- sse_states_to_endemicity(phylo$tip.state, sse_model = "musse")
phylod <- phylobase::phylo4d(phylo, as.data.frame(endemicity_status))
plot_phylod(phylod)

ASR with diversitree is done in three steps. The model structure is first specified to create a likelihood function; then parameters are optimised for this function; and finally the probabilities of states of the internal nodes are determined with the resulting maximum-likelihood model.

states <- get_sse_tip_states(phylod, sse_model = "musse")
states # note that states must be named after tips
#> bird_a bird_b bird_c bird_d bird_e bird_f bird_g bird_h bird_i bird_j bird_k 
#>      1      3      1      3      2      2      2      1      1      1      1 
#> bird_l bird_m bird_n bird_o bird_p bird_q bird_r bird_s bird_t 
#>      1      2      2      2      3      1      1      1      1
tree <- as(phylod, "phylo")
#> Warning in asMethod(object): losing data while coercing phylo4d to phylo

# Create likelihood function
lik_musse <- diversitree::make.musse(
  tree = tree, 
  states = states, 
  k = 3
)
lik_musse
#> MuSSE likelihood function:
#>   * Parameter vector takes 12 elements:
#>      - lambda1, lambda2, lambda3, mu1, mu2, mu3, q12, q13, q21, q23,
#>        q31, q32
#>   * Function takes arguments (with defaults)
#>      - pars: Parameter vector
#>      - condition.surv [TRUE]: Condition likelihood on survial?
#>      - root [ROOT.OBS]: Type of root treatment
#>      - root.p [NULL]: Vector of root state probabilities
#>      - intermediates [FALSE]: Also return intermediate values?
#>   * Phylogeny with 20 tips and 19 nodes
#>      - Taxa: bird_a, bird_b, bird_c, bird_d, bird_e, bird_f, ...
#>   * Reference:
#>      - FitzJohn (submitted)
#> R definition:
#> function (pars, condition.surv = TRUE, root = ROOT.OBS, root.p = NULL, 
#>     intermediates = FALSE)
fit_musse <- diversitree::find.mle(func = lik_musse, x.init = pars, method = "subplex")

# MuSSE ancestral state reconstructions under the ML model
asr_musse <- diversitree::asr.marginal(lik = lik_musse, pars = coef(fit_musse))
asr_musse
#>              [,1]         [,2]         [,3]         [,4]         [,5]
#> [1,] 5.932021e-07 2.957938e-12 1.165003e-08 1.481783e-12 9.104286e-09
#> [2,] 9.999994e-01 1.000000e+00 1.000000e+00 1.000000e+00 1.000000e+00
#> [3,] 1.353886e-12 2.064840e-19 3.309455e-13 1.196563e-18 3.387157e-13
#>              [,6]         [,7]         [,8]         [,9]        [,10]
#> [1,] 6.385956e-14 3.264622e-15 9.975371e-01 9.999999e-01 1.680040e-13
#> [2,] 1.000000e+00 1.000000e+00 2.462789e-03 1.229092e-07 1.000000e+00
#> [3,] 1.233413e-12 2.464181e-12 1.389318e-07 5.994989e-11 2.837966e-18
#>             [,11]        [,12]        [,13]        [,14]        [,15]
#> [1,] 1.528827e-12 5.497805e-07 4.225137e-13 1.722711e-15 9.037885e-01
#> [2,] 1.000000e+00 9.999989e-01 1.000000e+00 1.000000e+00 9.621135e-02
#> [3,] 9.585585e-18 5.542938e-07 3.118874e-18 8.713015e-20 1.523346e-07
#>             [,16]        [,17]        [,18]        [,19]
#> [1,] 9.145696e-01 9.999139e-01 9.992928e-01 9.999998e-01
#> [2,] 8.543035e-02 8.610419e-05 7.071914e-04 2.130365e-07
#> [3,] 6.000565e-08 7.413017e-09 2.026303e-08 3.933283e-10

We obtain a (pivoted) table of probabilites linked to each state, from which we can select states as for the BioGeoBEARS example:

asr_musse <- as.data.frame(t(asr_musse))
colnames(asr_musse) <- paste0(all_endemicity_status(), "_prob")

island_status <- select_endemicity_status(asr_musse, method = "max")
island_status
#>  [1] "endemic"     "endemic"     "endemic"     "endemic"     "endemic"    
#>  [6] "endemic"     "endemic"     "not_present" "not_present" "endemic"    
#> [11] "endemic"     "endemic"     "endemic"     "endemic"     "not_present"
#> [16] "not_present" "not_present" "not_present" "not_present"
asr_musse$island_status <- island_status
rownames(asr_musse) <- phylobase::nodeId(phylod, "internal")

phylod <- phylobase::addData(
  phylod,
  node.data = asr_musse
)
plot_phylod(phylod)

From this completed tree we can extract the island clade:

island_clades <- DAISIEprep::extract_island_species(
  phylod = phylod,
  extraction_method = "asr"
)
island_clades@island_tbl$species
#> [[1]]
#> [1] "bird_d" "bird_o" "bird_p" "bird_e" "bird_f" "bird_b" "bird_g" "bird_m"
#> [9] "bird_n"
island_clades@island_tbl$branching_times
#> [[1]]
#> [1] 8.0047889 6.4518206 4.2518993 2.5503507 1.6635537 1.6299262 0.4224813
#> [8] 0.4212151

SSE models in diversitree can be tuned further with constraints that simplify the model. We can use this to make the model closer to the assumptions of DAISIE. For example, it is not possible for a species to jump directly to the island and disappear from the mainland simultaneously; so that direct transitions from state 1 to 2 and back should be forbidden. One could also assume mainland speciation to be unlikely, resulting in zero speciation on the mainland and the same speciation rate for endemic and nonendemic species:

lik_musse_c <- diversitree::constrain(
  lik_musse, 
  q12 ~ 0, q21 ~ 0, # no island-mainland jumps
  lambda1 ~ 0, lambda3 ~ lambda2 # no mainland speciation
)

# Parameters must be removed accordingly
pars_c <- c(
  # lambda2
  0.2,
  # mu1 mu2 mu3
  0.03, 0.03, 0.03,
  # q13 q23 q31 q32
  0, 0.02, 0, 0.01
)

fit_musse_c <- diversitree::find.mle(func = lik_musse_c, x.init = pars_c, method = "subplex")
# Won't work because of poor parameter choice vs tip states

The example above won’t succeed because of a mismatch between the initial parameters value and the distribution of states at the tip, but we include it for illustrating how one would implement constrains on a diversitree model.

Instead of further constraining a multi-state model to emulate dispersal and evolution between mainland and island, one may find more appropriate to use an SSE model specifically dedicated to geographic traits, i.e., GeoSSE.

GeoSSE

GeoSSE (Goldberg et al. 2011) is a special case of SSE models dedicated to the case where traits correspond to presence or absence from two geographic areas, which is the case for our mainland/island clade. Its most important feature is that instead of considering the widespread state (mainland + island, that is nonendemic) as a third separate category from the two single-area states (as in the MuSSE example above), GeoSSE explicitly models it as corresponding to presence in both areas, just as in BioGeoBEARS. Accordingly, dispersal is unidirectional, from a single area towards the widespread state. Extinction from an area the widespread state returns the species to the remaining single area, while the same extinction while already in a single area results in the true extinction of the species.

In fact, GeoSSE is the SSE implementation of the DEC model, the only difference being that GeoSSE assumes an effect of areas themselves on the rates of speciation and extinction; and thus on the branching patterns observed in the tree [goldberg_phylogenetic_2011], while DEC only maps geography along the branches of the tree.

We use the same tree as the previous example:

# Rm all data but tip states
phylod@data <- phylod@data[1]
plot_phylod(phylod)

GeoSSE in diversitree has a different state encoding than MuSSE: states are expected to be 0, 1, 2, with 0 corresponding to the widespread state (that is, present on both mainland and island, nonendemic) and the two other states corresponding to single geographic areas. Hereafter, we follow 1 = mainland/not_present and 2 = island/endemic.

The syntax is otherwise the same as for MuSSE (and other SSE models implemented in diversitree).

states <- get_sse_tip_states(phylod, sse_model = "geosse")
states # note the encoding differs from the MuSSE example
#> bird_a bird_b bird_c bird_d bird_e bird_f bird_g bird_h bird_i bird_j bird_k 
#>      1      0      1      0      2      2      2      1      1      1      1 
#> bird_l bird_m bird_n bird_o bird_p bird_q bird_r bird_s bird_t 
#>      1      2      2      2      0      1      1      1      1

tree <- as(phylod, "phylo")

# Create likelihood function
lik_geosse <- diversitree::make.geosse(
  tree = tree, 
  states = states
)
lik_geosse
#> GeoSSE likelihood function:
#>   * Parameter vector takes 7 elements:
#>      - sA, sB, sAB, xA, xB, dA, dB
#>   * Function takes arguments (with defaults)
#>      - pars: Parameter vector
#>      - condition.surv [TRUE]: Condition likelihood on survial?
#>      - root [ROOT.OBS]: Type of root treatment
#>      - root.p [NULL]: Vector of root state probabilities
#>      - intermediates [FALSE]: Also return intermediate values?
#>   * Phylogeny with 20 tips and 19 nodes
#>      - Taxa: bird_a, bird_b, bird_c, bird_d, bird_e, bird_f, ...
#>   * Reference:
#>      - Goldberg et al. (2011) doi:10.1093/sysbio/syr046
#> R definition:
#> function (pars, condition.surv = TRUE, root = ROOT.OBS, root.p = NULL, 
#>     intermediates = FALSE)
# Initial GeoSSE parameter values
pars <- c(
  # Speciation: sA sB sAB
  0.2, 0.2, 0.2,
  # Extinction: xA xB
  0.02, 0.02,
  # Dispersal: dA dB
  0.1, 0
)

# Optimisation of the model's likelihood
fit_geosse <- diversitree::find.mle(func = lik_geosse, x.init = pars, method = "subplex")

# Ancestral state reconstructions under the ML model
asr_geosse <- diversitree::asr.marginal(lik = lik_geosse, pars = coef(fit_geosse))

# Select node states from marginal probabilities
asr_geosse <- as.data.frame(t(asr_geosse))
colnames(asr_geosse) <- c("nonendemic_prob", "not_present_prob", "endemic_prob") # make sure to get the order right!
island_status <- select_endemicity_status(asr_geosse, method = "max")

# Add node data to the tree
asr_geosse$island_status <- island_status
rownames(asr_geosse) <- phylobase::nodeId(phylod, "internal")
phylod <- phylobase::addData(
  phylod,
  node.data = asr_geosse
)
plot_phylod(phylod)

We are now ready to extract the island clade.

island_clades <- DAISIEprep::extract_island_species(
  phylod = phylod,
  extraction_method = "asr"
)
#> Warning in extract_species_asr(phylod = phylod, species_label = as.character(phylod@label[i]), : Root of the phylogeny is on the island so the colonisation
#>               time from the stem age cannot be collected, colonisation time
#>               will be set to infinite.
island_clades@island_tbl$species
#> [[1]]
#> [1] "bird_d" "bird_o" "bird_p" "bird_e" "bird_f" "bird_b" "bird_g" "bird_m"
#> [9] "bird_n"
island_clades@island_tbl$branching_times
#> [[1]]
#> [1] 8.0047889 6.4518206 4.2518993 2.5503507 1.6635537 1.6299262 0.4224813
#> [8] 0.4212151

In the case of this example, the crown node is inferred as present on the island (nonendemic), such that the time of the initial colonisation event cannot be estimated from the tree. Branching times are collected, but when passing this data to DAISIE, colonisation time will by default be set to -Inf, that is the age of the island.

corHMM

Just as diversitree, corHMM (Beaulieu et al. 2013) allows modelling and fitting SSE-class birth-death processes. In addition to standard SSE models, corHMM can also consider the overarching evolutionary processes that control changes in the observed traits, but that are themselves captured in the date – the so-called “hidden traits” (Beaulieu et al. 2013). This is particularly relevant for large and/or old clades, or whenever it appears reasonable that not all parts of the tree have evolved under similar conditions.

To consider an example in the context of island biogeography, let us imagine a plausible evolutionary scenario for our bird clade. For most of the clade, the emergence of endemic species following colonisation of the island takes time, requiring either the extinction of the mainland population or the differentiation of the island population and build-up of a reproductive barrier. Naturally, the island population may also go extinct, such that transitions between the different endemicity states follow this configuration:

Not present (NP) <-> Nonendemic (NE) <-> Endemic (E) (Regime 1)

However, one sub-clade (let’s say the one that comprises bird_m - bird_p) has a reduced dispersal ability, perhaps as the result of dietary, metabolic or physiological constraints. This difference is subtle and not captured in the data. Because of this, the rare long-distance migrants that reach the island are instantaneously isolated from the mainland population, and rapidly form endemic species. This sub-clade is never found in a nonendemic state, and instead species transit directly from not present to endemic, while back-colonisation is impossible:

Not present (NP) -> Endemic (E) (Regime 2)

We get the following trait distribution:

Let’s first fit a naive, single-regime SSE model, where all possible transitions between the three states are permitted:

# extract data from phylo
status_df <- data.frame("species" = phylod@label, phylod@data)

# Fit corHMM model to tree
fit_corhmm <- corHMM::corHMM(
  phy = phylo,
  data = status_df,
  model = "ARD", # all transitions independent, default
  rate.cat = 1 # only one regime
)
#> State distribution in data:
#> States:  1   2   3   
#> Counts:  5   7   8   
#> Beginning thorough optimization search -- performing 0 random restarts 
#> Finished. Inferring ancestral states using marginal reconstruction.

Calling the output corHMM prints a summary of the solution, including the estimated transition rates.

fit_corhmm
#> 
#> Fit
#>       -lnL      AIC     AICc Rate.cat ntax
#>  -20.50328 53.00655 59.46809        1   20
#> 
#> Legend
#>             1             2             3 
#>     "endemic"  "nonendemic" "not_present" 
#> 
#> Rates
#>              (1,R1)   (2,R1)       (3,R1)
#> (1,R1)           NA 22.85126  0.000000001
#> (2,R1) 1.739119e+01       NA 22.034092974
#> (3,R1) 1.000154e-09 18.11829           NA
#> 
#> Arrived at a reliable solution

Do mind the Legend element: corHMM auto-numbers trait states by order of first occurrence in the data. This may (and in the present case, does) differ from the numbering used in the original data. Below, we ensure that the traits map correctly with DAISIEprep’s endemicity statuses.

Note how transitions between endemic and not present are estimated to never happen, suggesting that bird_m and bird_o have either first been nonendemic and subject to dramatically fast extinction of their mainland population, or result from miraculous colonization events.

The posterior probabilities for the ancestral states are contained in the states element of the output object.

# Extract posterior probabilities of each state for each node
asr_corhmm <- as.data.frame(fit_corhmm$states)

# Convert posterior data to DAISIE format
colnames(asr_corhmm) <- paste0(unique(status_df$endemicity_status), "_prob")
island_status <- select_endemicity_status(asr_corhmm, method = "max")
asr_corhmm$island_status <- island_status
rownames(asr_corhmm) <- phylobase::nodeId(phylod, "internal")

phylod <- phylobase::addData(
  phylod,
  node.data = asr_corhmm
)
plot_phylod(phylod)

The tree suggests that most colonizaton events are recent (which is credible) and three miraculous not-present to endemic transitions!

Let us try again, this time constraining the model to consider the two speciation regimes described earlier, including possible transitions between them.

First, we need to specify the mapping of transitions between the three states for each regime as 3-by-3 matrices.

# Regime 1, E <-> NE <-> NP
rate_mat_r1 <- matrix(
  data = c(
    0, 1, 0,
    1, 0, 2,
    0, 2, 0),
  # Two rates, E <-> NE and NE <-> NP
  nrow = 3, ncol = 3
)

# Regime 2, NP -> E
rate_mat_r2 <- matrix(
  data = c(
    0, 0, 0,
    0, 0, 0,
    1, 0, 0),
  # One rate: NP -> E
  nrow = 3, ncol = 3
)

The numbers are indices indicating equal rates of transitions (i.e., number of parameters), not values! Zero forbids a transition. We also need to specify possible transitions between the two regimes in a 2-by-2 matrix.

regime_shift_mat <- matrix(
  data = c(0, 1,
           1, 0),
  ncol = 2, nrow = 2
)

The matrices can then be collated into viable corHMM input via getFullMat():

# Assemble input matrix
param_mat <- corHMM::getFullMat(
  StateMats = list(rate_mat_r1, rate_mat_r2),
  RateClassMat = regime_shift_mat
)

# Fit the model
fit_corhmm_hidden <- corHMM::corHMM(
  phy = phylo,
  data = status_df,
  rate.cat = 2,
  rate.mat = param_mat
)
#> State distribution in data:
#> States:  1   2   3   
#> Counts:  5   7   8   
#> Beginning thorough optimization search -- performing 0 random restarts 
#> Finished. Inferring ancestral states using marginal reconstruction.
# Output
fit_corhmm_hidden
#> 
#> Fit
#>       -lnL      AIC     AICc Rate.cat ntax
#>  -20.67452 49.34904 52.01571        2   20
#> 
#> Legend
#>             1             2             3 
#>     "endemic"  "nonendemic" "not_present" 
#> 
#> Rates
#>           (1,R1)    (2,R1)    (3,R1) (1,R2) (2,R2)    (3,R2)
#> (1,R1)        NA  53.84588        NA    100     NA        NA
#> (2,R1)  53.84588        NA  38.87903     NA    100        NA
#> (3,R1)        NA  38.87903        NA     NA     NA 100.00000
#> (1,R2) 100.00000        NA        NA     NA     NA  10.12079
#> (2,R2)        NA 100.00000        NA     NA     NA        NA
#> (3,R2)        NA        NA 100.00000     NA     NA        NA
#> 
#> Arrived at a reliable solution

As usual, we proceed to extract the posterior probabilities for the ancestral states. However, we first need to merge the probabilities of each state across the two regimes.


# Extract posterior probabilities of each state for each node
asr_corhmm_hidden <- as.data.frame(fit_corhmm_hidden$states)
head(asr_corhmm_hidden) # 6 columns
#>      (1,R1)    (2,R1)    (3,R1)    (1,R2)    (2,R2)    (3,R2)
#> 1 0.1397523 0.1636058 0.1966419 0.1269082 0.1636058 0.2094860
#> 2 0.1397523 0.1636058 0.1966419 0.1269082 0.1636058 0.2094860
#> 3 0.1397523 0.1636058 0.1966420 0.1269082 0.1636058 0.2094861
#> 4 0.1397633 0.1636121 0.1966271 0.1269184 0.1636142 0.2094649
#> 5 0.1398113 0.1636394 0.1965624 0.1269632 0.1636506 0.2093730
#> 6 0.1398908 0.1636890 0.1964514 0.1270358 0.1637188 0.2092142

# Merge (sum) probabilities for both regimes
for (i in 1:3) asr_corhmm_hidden[i] <- asr_corhmm_hidden[i] + asr_corhmm_hidden[i + 3]
asr_corhmm_hidden[4:6] <- NULL

head(asr_corhmm_hidden)
#>      (1,R1)    (2,R1)    (3,R1)
#> 1 0.2666605 0.3272116 0.4061279
#> 2 0.2666605 0.3272116 0.4061279
#> 3 0.2666604 0.3272115 0.4061280
#> 4 0.2666817 0.3272263 0.4060920
#> 5 0.2667746 0.3272900 0.4059354
#> 6 0.2669266 0.3274077 0.4056656

We can then add the ASR to the phylogeny:

# Convert posterior data to DAISIE format
colnames(asr_corhmm_hidden) <- paste0(unique(status_df$endemicity_status), "_prob")
island_status <- select_endemicity_status(asr_corhmm_hidden, method = "max")
asr_corhmm_hidden$island_status <- island_status
rownames(asr_corhmm_hidden) <- phylobase::nodeId(phylod, "internal")
head(asr_corhmm_hidden)
#>    endemic_prob nonendemic_prob not_present_prob island_status
#> 21    0.2666605       0.3272116        0.4061279   not_present
#> 22    0.2666605       0.3272116        0.4061279   not_present
#> 23    0.2666604       0.3272115        0.4061280   not_present
#> 24    0.2666817       0.3272263        0.4060920   not_present
#> 25    0.2667746       0.3272900        0.4059354   not_present
#> 26    0.2669266       0.3274077        0.4056656   not_present

# Add ASR to phylo
phylod <- phylobase::phylo4d(phylo, as.data.frame(endemicity_status))
phylod <- phylobase::addData(
  phylod,
  node.data = asr_corhmm_hidden
)
plot_phylod(phylod)

Admittedly (and embarassingly), posterior probabilities did not change much with the more complex and realistic model - too bad!

Concluding remarks

Extracting an island dataset from a larger phylogeny may in case require estimation of the history of colonisation of the island within the internal nodes of the phylogeny. We have shown how to do so above using examples from three R packages commonly used for ancestral state reconstruction. The choice of the most appropriate model to use for ancestral state reconstruction is a difficult question, and an integral part of the scientific exercise. This is likely to depend entirely on both the taxa and island system at hand, and thus we believe the user is best placed to make an informed decision. It is entirely possible to use multiple models to assess the sensibility of island data extraction to some processes, for example the possibility of jump dispersal (DEC+J) or feedbacks between speciation and island status (GeoSSE). Similarly, one may find the method = "random" option of select_endemicity_status() of use to study the uncertainty of reconstructions within the output of a single model. Through these examples, we hope to have introduced an accessible framework, that can be modified with ease to fit the specific needs of the analysis at hand.

Appendix

Below, we show the data manipulation underlying ASR with maximum parsimony, as done inside add_asr_node_states().

tip_states <- c()
endemicity_status <- phylobase::tipData(phylod)$endemicity_status
for (i in seq_along(endemicity_status)) {
  if (grepl(pattern = "^not_present$", x = endemicity_status[i])) {
    tip_states[i] <- 1
  } else if (grepl(pattern = "^nonendemic$", x = endemicity_status[i])) {
    tip_states[i] <- 2
  } else if (grepl(pattern = "^endemic$", x = endemicity_status[i])) {
    tip_states[i] <- 3
  }
}

The maximum parsimony ancestral state reconstruction is from the R package castor. The castor package only works with S3 phylo objects, so we need to convert the phylogeny back to this type and then run the analysis.

phylo <- as(phylo, "phylo")
asr <- castor::asr_max_parsimony(
  tree = phylo,
  tip_states = tip_states,
  transition_costs = "sequential"
)

This provides us with a matrix with the probabilities of the states (island presence/absence) at each node in the phylogeny. The first column of the matrix is not present on the island and the second column of the matrix is present on the island.

if (ncol(asr$ancestral_likelihoods) == 2) {
  colnames(asr$ancestral_likelihoods) <- c("not_present", "nonendemic")
} else if (ncol(asr$ancestral_likelihoods) == 3) {
  colnames(asr$ancestral_likelihoods) <-
    c("not_present", "nonendemic", "endemic")
}
asr$ancestral_likelihoods

Once we have the matrix with the likelihood of the states we can chose the most probable state at each node using the max.col() function. Here we need to make a decision that will have downstream consequences for the DAISIE data extracted from the tree, which is when a node has island presence and absence equally probable we need to decide whether that species should be considered on the island. To consider it on the island use ties.method = "last" in the max.col() function, if you consider it not on the island use ties.method = "first". For this example we will assume that species are on the island, but for completeness it may be worth running both and then seeing if there are significant downstream consequences.

node_states <- max.col(asr$ancestral_likelihoods, ties.method = "last")

These values can now be converted back to string to make them more readable.

node_states <- gsub(
  pattern = "1", replacement = "not_present", x = node_states
)
node_states <- gsub(
  pattern = "2", replacement = "nonendemic", x = node_states
)
node_states <- gsub(
  pattern = "3", replacement = "endemic", x = node_states
)

Now the ancestral states at the nodes is available we can combine it into our phylod object.

node_data <- data.frame(
  island_status = node_states,
  endemic_prob = asr$ancestral_likelihoods[, "endemic"],
  nonendemic_prob = asr$ancestral_likelihoods[, "nonendemic"],
  not_present_prob = asr$ancestral_likelihoods[, "not_present"],
  row.names = phylobase::nodeId(phylod, "internal")
)
phylod <- phylobase::phylo4d(
  phylo,
  tip.data = as.data.frame(endemicity_status),
  node.data = node_data
)

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