EUNIS habitat type hierarchical view

• A : Marine habitats
  
  • A1 : Littoral rock and other hard substrata
    
  • A2 : Littoral sediment
    
    • A2.1 : Littoral coarse sediment
    • A2.2 : Littoral sand and muddy sand
    • A2.3 : Littoral mud
      • A2.31 : Polychaete/bivalve-dominated mid estuarine mud shores
      • A2.32 : Polychaete/oligochaete-dominated upper estuarine mud shores
      •  A2.33 : Marine mud shores
    • 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
    
  • A5 : Sublittoral sediment
    
  • A6 : Deep-sea bed
    
  • A7 : Pelagic water column
    
  • A8 : Ice-associated marine habitats
    
    • A8.1 : Sea ice
    • A8.2 : Freshwater ice
    • A8.3 : Brine channels
    • A8.4 : Under-ice habitat
• B : Coastal habitats
  
• C : Inland surface waters
  
  • C1 : Surface standing waters
    
  • C2 : Surface running waters
    
  • C3 : Littoral zone of inland surface waterbodies
    
    • C3.1 : Species-rich helophyte beds
    • C3.2 : Water-fringing reedbeds and tall helophytes other than canes
    • C3.3 : Water-fringing beds of tall canes
    • C3.4 : Species-poor beds of low-growing water-fringing or amphibious vegetation
    • C3.5 : Periodically inundated shores with pioneer and ephemeral vegetation
    • C3.6 : Unvegetated or sparsely vegetated shores with soft or mobile sediments
    • C3.7 : Unvegetated or sparsely vegetated shores with non-mobile substrates
    •  C3.8 : Inland spray- and steam-dependent habitats
• D : Mires, bogs and fens
  
• E : Grasslands and lands dominated by forbs, mosses or lichens
  
  • E1 : Dry grasslands
    
  • E2 : Mesic grasslands
    
  • E3 : Seasonally wet and wet grasslands
    
  • E4 : Alpine and subalpine grasslands
    
  • E5 : Woodland fringes and clearings and tall forb stands
    
  • E6 : Inland salt steppes
    
  • E7 : Sparsely wooded grasslands
    
• 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
    
    • F4.1 : Wet heaths
    • F4.2 : Dry heaths
    • F4.3 : Macaronesian heaths
  • F5 : Maquis, arborescent matorral and thermo-Mediterranean brushes
    
    • F5.1 : Arborescent matorral
      • F5.11 : Evergreen [Quercus] matorral
      • F5.12 : [Olea europaea] and [Pistacia lentiscus] matorral
      • F5.13 : [Juniper] matorral
      • F5.14 : [Pinus] matorral
      •  F5.15 : [Tetraclinis articulata] matorral
      •  F5.16 : Deciduous [Quercus] matorral
      • F5.17 : Arid zone matorral
      •  F5.18 : [Laurus nobilis] matorral
      •  F5.19 : [Cupressus] matorral
      •  F5.1A : [Zelkova] 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
  
  • H1 : Terrestrial underground caves, cave systems, passages and waterbodies
    
    •  H1.1 : Cave entrances
    • H1.2 : Cave interiors
    •  H1.3 : Dark underground passages
    • H1.4 : Lava tubes
      •  H1.41 : Icelandic lava tubes
      •  H1.42 : Macaronesian lava tubes
      •  H1.43 : Tethyan lava tubes
    • H1.5 : Underground standing waterbodies
    • H1.6 : Underground running waterbodies
    •  H1.7 : Disused underground mines and tunnels
  • H2 : Screes
    
  • H3 : Inland cliffs, rock pavements and outcrops
    
  • H4 : Snow or ice-dominated habitats
    
  • H5 : Miscellaneous inland habitats with very sparse or no vegetation
    
  • H6 : Recent volcanic features
    
• I : Regularly or recently cultivated agricultural, horticultural and domestic habitats
  
• J : Constructed, industrial and other artificial habitats
  
• X : Habitat complexes