dd><p><code>numeric</code> cost value.
Greater values correspond to solutions that are more costly
to implement.
Thus conservation planning exercises typically prefer solutions
with smaller values, because they are cheaper to implement
(assuming all other relevant factors, such as feature representation,
are equal).</p></dd>



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    <p>This metric is equivalent to the <code