Integration with the FossilSim and paleotree packages

Integration with the FossilSim package

admtools can transform phylogenetic trees coded as phylo objects as well as fossils and taxonomy objects as defined by the FossilSim package. This allows to transform phylogenetic trees with their associated taxonomic information and fossil locations between the time and the stratigraphic domain.

In contrast to admtools, FossilSim uses age (time before the present) instead of time. To successfully transform data generated by FossilSim, this must be reversed using rev_dir.

We give an example of this workflow

set.seed(42)
# construct age-depth model
my_adm = tp_to_adm(t = CarboCATLite_data$time_myr,
                  h = CarboCATLite_data$height_2_km_offshore_m,
                  L_unit = "m",
                  T_unit = "Myr")
# simulate phylogenetic tree
t = ape::rbdtree(birth = 3, death = 1, Tmax = 2)
# simulate taxonomy along the tree
s = FossilSim::sim.taxonomy(tree = t)
# simulate fossils based on taxonomy
f = FossilSim::sim.fossils.poisson(rate = 4, taxonomy = s)
# plot tree with taxonomy and fossil times
FossilSim:::plot.fossils(f, tree = t, taxonomy = s, show.taxonomy = TRUE)

## transform everything into the strat domain
t_strat = time_to_strat(t, my_adm) # no transformation of time to age required
s_strat = s |>  # taxonomy object in the time domain
  rev_dir(ref = max_time(my_adm)) |> # convert age to time
  time_to_strat( my_adm, destructive = FALSE) |> # transform using age-depth model
  rev_dir(ref = max_height(my_adm)) # transform back into age
f_strat =  f |> # same here
  rev_dir(ref = max_time(my_adm)) |>
  time_to_strat( my_adm, destructive = TRUE)|> # destroy fossils coinciding with gaps
  rev_dir(ref = max_height(my_adm))

FossilSim:::plot.fossils(f_strat, tree = t_strat, taxonomy = s_strat, show.taxonomy = TRUE)

Important point are

• rev_dir must be applied directly after data was generated and and directly before the data is further processed using FossilSim. As a principle, use rev_dir before data from FossilSim enters the admtools and StratPal ecosystem, and as it leaves the ecosystem.

• By default, FossilSim plots have axis labels “Time before present”, although the trees after the transformation can be trees in the stratigraphic domain. Because of this fixed reference point used, 0 in the above plot represents the uppermost height of the section, the axis units are lengths and not times, and the “Age” is stratigraphic position below the top of the section.

Integration with paleotree

To combine the admtools package with the paleotree package, please convert the paleotree format into the FossilSim format as described in the paleotree vignette of the FossilSim vignette:

vignette("paleotree", package = "FossilSim")

After conversion you can proceed as described in the section Integration with the FossilSim package

References

• Barido-Sottani J, Pett W, O’Reilly JE, Warnock RCM. Fossilsim: An r package for simulating fossil occurrence data under mechanistic models of preservation and recovery. Methods Ecol Evol. 2019; 10: 835–840. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13170
• Bapst, D.W. (2012), paleotree: an R package for paleontological and phylogenetic analyses of evolution. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 3: 803-807. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-210X.2012.00223.x
• Warnock R, Barido-Sottani J, Pett W, Joseph O, Stolz U (2024). FossilSim: Simulation and Plots for Fossil and Taxonomy Data. R package version 2.4.1, https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=FossilSim