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apTreeshape (version 1.5-0.1)

get_extinction_list: Gives the tips of the phylogeny in their extinction order

Description

Orders the tips which will sequentially get extinct/be sampled, based on relative species abundance as explained in the main text of the article.

Usage

get_extinction_list(N, tree, equal.ab = TRUE)

Arguments

N

Tip nuber

tree

A phylo object

equal.ab

If set to TRUE (the default), all species have the same probability to go extinct first

References

Maliet O., Gascuel F., Lambert A. (2018) Ranked tree shapes, non-random extinctions and the loss of phylogenetic diversity, bioRxiv 224295, doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/224295