Science and Technology
- Biodiversity, the degree of variation of life forms within a given ecosystem
- Species diversity, the effective number of species represented in a data set
- Genetic diversity, the total number of genetic characteristics in the genetic makeup of a species
- Nucleotide diversity, the measure the degree of polymorphism within a population
- Phylogenetic diversity, a measure of biodiversity which incorporates phylogenetic difference between species
- Ecosystem diversity, the diversity of a place at the level of ecosystems
- Crop diversity, the variance in genetic and phenotypic characteristics of plants used in agriculture
- Diversity index, a statistic to assess the diversity of a population
- Diversity University, a virtual reality system for educational use
- Diversity factor, a concept in electrical engineering
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