R. C. Warnock

A skyline birth-death process for inferring the population size from a reconstructed tree with occurrences

This paper introduces a skyline birth-death process to infer population size changes over time using occurrence data and phylogenetic trees, applied to epidemiology and macroevolution.

Ignoring fossil age uncertainty leads to inaccurate topology and divergence times in time calibrated tree inference

This study shows that ignoring fossil age uncertainty leads to less accurate tree topologies and divergence times, especially with high character sampling.

Ignoring stratigraphic age uncertainty leads to erroneous estimates of species divergence times under the fossilized birth-death process

This study shows that ignoring stratigraphic age uncertainty in fossil data leads to biased divergence time estimates under the fossilized birth-death process, and recommends explicitly incorporating age uncertainty.