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
    • A2.4 : Littoral mixed sediments
    • A2.5 : Coastal saltmarshes and saline reedbeds
      • A2.51 : Saltmarsh driftlines
      • A2.52 : Upper saltmarshes
      • A2.53 : Mid-upper saltmarshes and saline and brackish reed, rush and sedge beds
      • A2.54 : Low-mid saltmarshes
      • A2.55 : Pioneer saltmarshes
    • A2.6 : Littoral sediments dominated by aquatic angiosperms
    • A2.7 : Littoral biogenic 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
    
    • 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
  • A7 : Pelagic 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
  
  • D1 : Raised and blanket bogs
    
  • D2 : Valley mires, poor fens and transition mires
    
  • D3 : Aapa, palsa and polygon mires
    
  • D4 : Base-rich fens and calcareous spring mires
    
  • D5 : Sedge and reedbeds, normally without free-standing water
    
  • D6 : Inland saline and brackish marshes and reedbeds
    
• E : Grasslands and lands dominated by forbs, mosses or lichens
  
• F : Heathland, scrub and tundra
  
  • F1 : 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
    
  • F6 : Garrigue
    
  • F7 : Spiny Mediterranean heaths (phrygana, hedgehog-heaths and related coastal cliff vegetation)
    
  • F8 : Thermo-Atlantic xerophytic scrub
    
  • F9 : Riverine and fen scrubs
    
    • F9.1 : Riverine scrub
    • F9.2 : [Salix] carr and fen scrub
    • F9.3 : Southern riparian galleries and thickets
  • FA : Hedgerows
    
    •  FA.1 : Hedgerows of non-native species
    •  FA.2 : Highly-managed hedgerows of native species
    •  FA.3 : Species-rich hedgerows of native species
    •  FA.4 : Species-poor hedgerows of native species
  • FB : Shrub plantations
    
    •  FB.1 : Shrub plantations for whole-plant harvesting
    • FB.2 : Shrub plantations for leaf or branch harvest
    • FB.3 : Shrub plantations for ornamental purposes or for fruit, other than vineyards
    • FB.4 : Vineyards
• G : Woodland, forest and other wooded land
  
  • G1 : Broadleaved deciduous woodland
    
  • G2 : Broadleaved evergreen woodland
    
    • G2.1 : Mediterranean evergreen [Quercus] woodland
    • G2.2 : Eurasian continental sclerophyllous woodland
    • G2.3 : Macaronesian [Laurus] woodland
    • G2.4 : [Olea europaea] - [Ceratonia siliqua] woodland
      •  G2.41 : Wild [Olea europaea] woodland
      •  G2.42 : [Ceratonia siliqua] woodland
      •  G2.43 : Canary Island [Olea europaea] woodland
    • G2.5 : [Phoenix] groves
    •  G2.6 : [Ilex aquifolium] woods
    • G2.7 : Canary Island heath woodland
    • G2.8 : Highly artificial broadleaved evergreen forestry plantations
    • G2.9 : Evergreen orchards and groves
      •  G2.91 : [Olea europaea] groves
      •  G2.92 : Citrus orchards
      •  G2.93 : [Phoenix] plantations
      •  G2.94 : Other evergreen orchards
  • G3 : Coniferous woodland
    
  • G4 : Mixed deciduous and coniferous woodland
    
  • G5 : Lines of trees, small anthropogenic woodlands, recently felled woodland, early-stage woodland and coppice
    
• H : Inland unvegetated or sparsely vegetated habitats
  
  • H1 : Terrestrial underground caves, cave systems, passages and waterbodies
    
  • H2 : Screes
    
    •  H2.1 : Cold siliceous screes
    •  H2.2 : Cold limestone screes
    • H2.3 : Temperate-montane acid siliceous screes
    • H2.4 : Temperate-montane calcareous and ultra-basic screes
    • H2.5 : Acid siliceous screes of warm exposures
    • H2.6 : Calcareous and ultra-basic screes of warm exposures
  • 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
  
  • J1 : Buildings of cities, towns and villages
    
    •  J1.1 : Residential buildings of city and town centres
    •  J1.2 : Residential buildings of villages and urban peripheries
    • J1.3 : Urban and suburban public buildings
    • J1.4 : Urban and suburban industrial and commercial sites still in active use
    • J1.5 : Disused constructions of cities, towns and villages
    •  J1.6 : Urban and suburban construction and demolition sites
    •  J1.7 : High density temporary residential units
  • J2 : Low density buildings
    
  • J3 : Extractive industrial sites
    
  • J4 : Transport networks and other constructed hard-surfaced areas
    
  • J5 : Highly artificial man-made waters and associated structures
    
  • J6 : Waste deposits
    
• X : Habitat complexes