Feature diversity can provide a basis for valuation, but it raises measurement challenges.
Similar idea can be integrated into gSide to improve feature diversity.
The sixth feature, diversity, refers to the existence of different individuals or members in a society.
The predicted total feature diversity of a set of species is referred to as its "phylogenetic diversity" (PD; Faith 1994).
The case studies also feature diversity in their political-institutional structure and socio-economic outlook, shown in Table 3.
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Such a potential retention of feature diversity, and corresponding evolutionary potential (for discussion, see Forest et al., 2007), suggests that future climate change impacts studies may focus on PD as an important complement to species-level studies.
The proposed algorithm first introduces a new elastic model to balance the global and local warping effects, such that the impacts from facial feature diversity among people can be minimized, and thus more effective geometric warping results can be achieved.
If we apply the rationale that all these features should be treated as units of equal value, then some species (those that are phylogenetically distinctive; see below) will make larger contributions to the overall feature diversity represented by a set of species.
For example, given some subset of species that are well-protected, and two species in that taxonomic group that are endangered, the priority for conservation investment may depend on the relative gains in feature diversity (the complementarity values) expected for each species.
