text: user2338: Using starBeast I ran a 50 locus tree, with 34 individuals, using evolutionary models indicated by AICc in jModel test. I ran this tree with a MCMC chain length of 500 million, storing every 10,000 generations. I used a relaxed clock log normal. 
  I get low ESS values for posterior, prior, birthRate.t:Species, YuleModel.t:Species, popMean, and TreeHeight.Species. 
  ucldMean.c:Locus_name is low for each loci. 
  The TreeHeight statisitcs also have low ESS values.
  Also rate.c:Locus_name.mean for each loci is low as well. 
  Is there a way to change my parameters in Beauti to help increase the ESS values of these statistics? Is there a parameter that would likely cause the ESS values of these particular statistics to be low? Would increasing the MCMC chain length increase the ESS values, given that I've already run half a billion? 
  
  user439: The official BEAST website suggests a number of solutions to improve the ESS of a parameter
  It is not uncommon to have several billions of generations so I don't imagine increasing your number of generations would hurt.
  
original_text: 2338: <p>Using starBeast I ran a 50 locus tree, with 34 individuals, using evolutionary models indicated by AICc in jModel test. I ran this tree with a MCMC chain length of 500 million, storing every 10,000 generations. I used a relaxed clock log normal. </p>
  
  <p>I get low ESS values for posterior, prior, birthRate.t:Species, YuleModel.t:Species, popMean, and TreeHeight.Species. 
  ucldMean.c:Locus_name is low for each loci. 
  The TreeHeight statisitcs also have low ESS values.
  Also rate.c:Locus_name.mean for each loci is low as well. </p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to change my parameters in Beauti to help increase the ESS values of these statistics? Is there a parameter that would likely cause the ESS values of these particular statistics to be low? Would increasing the MCMC chain length increase the ESS values, given that I've already run half a billion? </p>
   439: <p>The official <a href="http://www.beast2.org/increasing-esss/index.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">BEAST</a> website suggests a number of solutions to improve the ESS of a parameter</p>
  
  <p>It is not uncommon to have <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27539485" rel="nofollow noreferrer">several billions of generations</a> so I don't imagine increasing your number of generations would hurt.</p>
  