## 4 Conclusions  
We presented a method for assessing three EFs of urban and peri-urban habitats (biodiversity, evapotranspiration, and carbon production) indicating their capacity to provide associated ESs (habitat provision and climate regulation at local and regional scales). The simplicity of application of the lookup table approach based on values associated with habitat types makes it suitable not only for urban areas but also for the adjacent rural landscape and enables analysis of the urban-rural gradient of EFs values. The values assigned to habitat types can be transferred to other European countries with similar climatic conditions and, thus, habitat types.  
The application of the method to the administrative territories of two cities, Liberec and Decin, revealed high performance of EFs, which was even higher than the average for the whole country. Urban and suburban areas had the lowest values, but the peri-urban areas had surprisingly high values for habitat connectivity and other EFs, especially in Decin, where the special conditions led to a concentration of valuable habitats in this area. The urban-rural analysis also supported this result, showing higher values for biodiversity and connectivity in peri-urban areas than in the adjacent rural landscape. The lowest values of the three studied ESs were obtained for habitat-level biodiversity, especially in the urban core and suburbs and near the boundary of the administrative territory. This indicates that many habitat types typical of urban and peri-urban areas may perform climate-regulating functions relatively well, but do not support biodiversity to the same extent. Therefore, promoting biodiversity should be a priority in urban adaptation plans.  
This method can serve as a useful tool to quickly identify valuable urban habitats (strong EFs providers) and advocate for their protection or, on the contrary, identify places with low values of EFs. In particular, low values of evapotranspiration in the central area of cities and the low connectivity of valuable habitats are situations that should be prioritized and sorted in urban adaptation strategies toward global climate change.  
The following supporting information can be downloaded at [[https://www.mdpi.com/article/10.3390/app13095759/s1](https://www.mdpi.com/article/10.3390/app13095759/s1)]([https://www.mdpi.com/article/10.3390/app13095759/s1](https://www.mdpi.com/article/10.3390/app13095759/s1)), Table S1. Habitat types and their relative point values according to ref. [36].  
Conceptualization, M.P., R.V., and P.C.; methodology, M.P.; software, V.P.; validation, L.S., J.P., and P.C.; formal analysis R.V.; investigation V.P. and R.V.; resources, A.M.A.A.; data curation, V.P. and R.V.; writing--original draft preparation, M.P.; writing--review & editing, P.C., R.V., L.S., J.P., and O.C.; visualization, R.V.; supervision, P.C.; project administration, P.C.; funding acquisition, P.C. All authors read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.  
This research was funded by the EU project BIDELIN \"The values of ecosystem services, biodiversity, and green-blue infrastructure in cities using the examples of Dresden, Liberec, and Decin\"in the framework of the Interreg V-A 2014-2020 Saxony-Czech Republic and by the institutional project of the Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences.  
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**Data Availability Statement:** The data are available from the authors upon request.  
This work was supported by the EU project BIDELIN and by the Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences.  
The authors declare no conflict of interest.