EUNIS habitat type hierarchical view

• A : Marine habitats
  
  • A1 : Littoral rock and other hard substrata
    
    • A1.1 : High energy littoral rock
      • A1.11 : Mussel and/or barnacle communities
      • A1.12 : Robust fucoid and/or red seaweed communities
      • A1.13 : Mediterranean and Black Sea communities of upper mediolittoral rock
      • A1.14 : Mediterranean and Black Sea communities of lower mediolittoral rock very exposed to wave action
      • A1.15 : Fucoids in tide-swept conditions
      • A1.16 : Pontic communities of exposed mediolittoral rock
    • A1.2 : Moderate energy littoral rock
    • A1.3 : Low energy littoral rock
    • A1.4 : Features of littoral rock
  • A2 : Littoral sediment
    
  • A3 : Infralittoral rock and other hard substrata
    
  • A4 : Circalittoral rock and other hard substrata
    
    • A4.1 : Atlantic and Mediterranean high energy circalittoral rock
    • A4.2 : Atlantic and Mediterranean moderate energy circalittoral rock
    • A4.3 : Atlantic and Mediterranean low energy circalittoral rock
    •  A4.4 : Baltic exposed circalittoral rock
    •  A4.5 : Baltic moderately exposed circalittoral rock
    •  A4.6 : Baltic sheltered circalittoral rock
    • A4.7 : Features of circalittoral rock
  • A5 : Sublittoral sediment
    
  • A6 : Deep-sea bed
    
    • A6.1 : Deep-sea rock and artificial hard substrata
    • A6.2 : Deep-sea mixed substrata
    • A6.3 : Deep-sea sand
    •  A6.4 : Deep-sea muddy sand
    • A6.5 : Deep-sea mud
    • A6.6 : Deep-sea bioherms
      • A6.61 : Communities of deep-sea corals
      • A6.62 : Deep-sea sponge aggregations
    • A6.7 : Raised features of the deep-sea bed
    • A6.8 : Deep-sea trenches and canyons, channels, slope failures and slumps on the continental slope
    • A6.9 : Vents, seeps, hypoxic and anoxic habitats of the deep sea
  • A7 : Pelagic water column
    
    • A7.1 : Neuston
    • A7.2 : Completely mixed water column with reduced salinity
    • A7.3 : Completely mixed water column with full salinity
    • A7.4 : Partially mixed water column with reduced salinity and medium or long residence time
    • A7.5 : Unstratified water column with reduced salinity
    • A7.6 : Vertically stratified water column with reduced salinity
    • A7.7 : Fronts in reduced salinity water column
    • A7.8 : Unstratified water column with full salinity
      •  A7.81 : Euphotic (epipelagic) zone in unstratified full salinity water
      •  A7.82 : Mesopelagic zone in unstratified full salinity water
      •  A7.83 : Bathypelagic zone in unstratified full salinity water
      •  A7.84 : Abyssopelagic zone in unstratified full salinity water
    • A7.9 : Vertically stratified water column with full salinity
    • A7.A : Fronts in full salinity water column
  • A8 : Ice-associated marine habitats
    
• B : Coastal habitats
  
• C : Inland surface waters
  
  • C1 : Surface standing waters
    
  • C2 : Surface running waters
    
  • C3 : Littoral zone of inland surface waterbodies
    
• D : Mires, bogs and fens
  
• E : Grasslands and lands dominated by forbs, mosses or lichens
  
• F : Heathland, scrub and tundra
  
• G : Woodland, forest and other wooded land
  
• H : Inland unvegetated or sparsely vegetated habitats
  
• I : Regularly or recently cultivated agricultural, horticultural and domestic habitats
  
• J : Constructed, industrial and other artificial habitats
  
• X : Habitat complexes