OFarrell_et_al_2012

O’Farrell PJ, Anderson PML, Le Maitre DC, Holmes PM (2012) Insights and Opportunities Offered by a Rapid Ecosystem Service Assessment in Promoting a Conservation Agenda in an Urban Biodiversity Hotspot. Ecology and Society 17:1–15

---

Keywords: Ecosystem services, historical change, urban ecology

Introduces a rapid assessment tool to scope the spatiotemporal arrangement of ES. Worked with the municipality to decide which ES to investigate. Assessed regulatory and cultural ES and used land cover scenarios to develop potential outcomes of different modelling scenarios. Had a pre-colonial land cover layer, current layer, and predicted future layer. Provisioning services are critically compromised within the city, however, they can be outsourced to outlying areas. regulating ecosystem services cannot be outsourced and their loss is critical. Education value is important and you lose access when development occurs.