Figure 2
From: A Bayesian framework to estimate diversification rates and their variation through time and space
Effect of taxon sampling on rate estimates. Speciation (blue circles) and extinction (red crosses) rates estimated on simulated data sets of 400 taxa with a taxon sampling of 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100%, respectively. Phylogenetic trees were simulated with a speciation and extinction rate of 1 and 0.9, respectively (indicated by the dashed lines). Decreasing taxon sampling is correlated with an increase in the 95% highest posterior density (HPD) interval, whereas the accuracy of the rate estimate largely remains unaffected.