And don't forget that measurement error in the tip data will also cause
underestimation of phylogenetic signal, unless you use methods specifically
designed to allow for that!
Ives, A. R., P. E. Midford, and T. Garland. 2007. Within-species variation
and measurement error in phylogenetic
A deep thought on this topic, from a mind run aground amidst grading papers.
While I am a big fan of using multiple trees, we should keep in mind
that phylogenetic uncertainty makes signal into a rather snaky
concept. By this, I mean that there could have only been one true
history (which may or
Hello R-sig-phylo community,
I am trying to measure the phylogenetic signal of functional traits with the
Blomberg’s K and Pagel’s λ methods. My problem is that I don’t have one
phylogenetic tree but 1000 (the trees were created by first combining different
molecular, morphologic and
