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Hidden state models improve state-dependent diversification approaches, including biogeographical models.
Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution 2018 November
The state-dependent speciation and extinction (SSE) models have recently been criticized due to their high rates of "false positive" results. Many researchers have advocated avoiding SSE models in favor of other "nonparametric" or "semiparametric" approaches. The hidden Markov modeling (HMM) approach provides a partial solution to the issues of model adequacy detected with SSE models. The inclusion of "hidden states" can account for rate heterogeneity observed in empirical phylogenies and allows for reliable detection of state-dependent diversification or diversification shifts independent of the trait of interest. However, the adoption of HMM has been hampered by the interpretational challenges of what exactly a "hidden state" represents, which we clarify herein. We show that HMMs in combination with a model-averaging approach naturally account for hidden traits when examining the meaningful impact of a suspected "driver" of diversification. We also extend the HMM to the geographic state-dependent speciation and extinction (GeoSSE) model. We test the efficacy of our "GeoHiSSE" extension with both simulations and an empirical dataset. On the whole, we show that hidden states are a general framework that can distinguish heterogeneous effects of diversification attributed to a focal character.
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