EUNIS habitat type hierarchical view

• A : Marine habitats
  
  • A1 : Littoral rock and other hard substrata
    
    • A1.1 : High energy littoral rock
    • A1.2 : Moderate energy littoral rock
    • A1.3 : Low energy littoral rock
    • A1.4 : Features of littoral rock
  • A2 : Littoral sediment
    
    • A2.1 : Littoral coarse sediment
    • A2.2 : Littoral sand and muddy sand
    • A2.3 : Littoral mud
    • A2.4 : Littoral mixed sediments
    • A2.5 : Coastal saltmarshes and saline reedbeds
    • A2.6 : Littoral sediments dominated by aquatic angiosperms
    • A2.7 : Littoral biogenic reefs
      • A2.71 : Littoral [Sabellaria] reefs
      • A2.72 : Littoral mussel beds on sediment
      •  A2.73 : Pontic [Ficopomatus enigmaticus] reefs
    • A2.8 : Features of 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
    • A6.7 : 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
      • A6.91 : Deep-sea reducing habitats
      •  A6.92 : Deep-sea bed influenced by hypoxic water column
      •  A6.93 : Isolated ‘oceanic’ features influenced by hypoxic water column
      • A6.94 : Vents in the deep sea
      •  A6.95 : Pontic anoxic H2S black muds of the slope and abyssal plain, with anaerobic sulphate reducing bacteria and nematodes
  • 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
    • A7.9 : Vertically stratified water column with full salinity
    • A7.A : Fronts in full salinity water column
  • A8 : Ice-associated marine habitats
    
    • A8.1 : Sea ice
    • A8.2 : Freshwater ice
    • A8.3 : Brine channels
      •  A8.31 : Brine channels in first year ice
      •  A8.32 : Brine channels in multi-year ice
    • A8.4 : Under-ice habitat
• B : Coastal habitats
  
  • B1 : Coastal dunes and sandy shores
    
    • B1.1 : Sand beach driftlines
    • B1.2 : Sand beaches above the driftline
    • B1.3 : Shifting coastal dunes
    • B1.4 : Coastal stable dune grassland (grey dunes)
    • B1.5 : Coastal dune heaths
    • B1.6 : Coastal dune scrub
    • B1.7 : Coastal dune woods
    • B1.8 : Moist and wet dune slacks
    •  B1.9 : Machair
  • B2 : Coastal shingle
    
  • B3 : Rock cliffs, ledges and shores, including the supralittoral
    
• 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
  
  • F1 : Tundra
    
    • F1.1 : Shrub tundra
    • F1.2 : Moss and lichen tundra
  • F2 : Arctic, alpine and subalpine scrub
    
  • F3 : Temperate and mediterranean-montane scrub
    
  • F4 : Temperate shrub heathland
    
  • F5 : Maquis, arborescent matorral and thermo-Mediterranean brushes
    
    • F5.1 : Arborescent matorral
    • F5.2 : Maquis
    • F5.3 : Pseudomaquis
    •  F5.4 : [Spartium junceum] fields
    • F5.5 : Thermo-Mediterranean scrub
  • F6 : Garrigue
    
  • F7 : Spiny Mediterranean heaths (phrygana, hedgehog-heaths and related coastal cliff vegetation)
    
  • F8 : Thermo-Atlantic xerophytic scrub
    
  • F9 : Riverine and fen scrubs
    
  • FA : Hedgerows
    
  • FB : Shrub plantations
    
• 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