Is the originality of a species measurable

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Rare Species Support Vulnerable Functions in High-Diversity Ecosystems (2013, background): “Many distinctiveness measures have been developed recently [55], most of them being designed within a phylogenetic perspective and based on trees linking species.”
Mammals on the EDGE: Conservation Priorities Based on Threat and Phylogeny (2007, methodology): “This paper describes a new method for measuring species' relative contributions to phylogenetic diversity”
Body size, rarity, and phylogenetic community structure: insights from diving beetle assemblages of Alberta (2006, background): “This procedure serves to minimize variance in branch lengths and allows nodal distances between species to be based on time and thus independent of the species richness and level of resolution of clades in the phylogeny (Webb, 2000; Pavoine et al., 2005; Proches et al., 2006).”
Do we protect biological originality in protected areas? A new index and an application to the Bonifacio Strait Natural Reserve (2008, methodology): “More details were provided in Pavoine et al. (2005).”