Consider a deep-time scale anaylsis in the future

[jtmiller28]

There is a lot of data in our records for fossils, as we will not be using them in this analysis I am discluding them. However, it might be interesting once the project has isolated some codrivers between bees and angiosperms to identify whether we can observe these trends in deep time.

PaleoGenerate developed by Shelly Gaynor would offer an interesting method for modeling this. Perhaps I could analyze phylogenetic diversity over different periods of climatic conditions.

To address these questions though we will have to consider:

1. What climatic variables are of interest::PaleoGenerate advises only the use of mean annual temp, others can be iffy and should be left to data exploration rather than evidence
2. Is there enough Bee and Plant data? Sure there might be records, but just how sparse is the fossil record for these groups? Perhaps an isolated area with well known fossil deposition during a large radiation event would allow for good sampling?
3. Along with this considerations for ghost lineages...we don't know all of the groups that were perserved. There could be more happening the records can anticipate.