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
      • A2.21 : Strandline
      • A2.22 : Barren or amphipod-dominated mobile sand shores
      • A2.23 : Polychaete/amphipod-dominated fine sand shores
        • A2.231 : Polychaetes in littoral fine sand
      • A2.24 : Polychaete/bivalve-dominated muddy sand shores
      • A2.25 : Mediterranean and Pontic communities of mediolittoral sands
      • A2.26 : Strictly Pontic communities of mediolittoral sands
    • 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
    • A2.8 : 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
      •  A6.21 : Deep-sea lag deposits
      •  A6.22 : Deep-sea biogenic gravels (shells, coral debris)
      •  A6.23 : Deep-sea calcareous pavements
      • A6.24 : Communities of allochthonous material
    • 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
      •  A6.71 : Permanently submerged flanks of oceanic islands
      • A6.72 : Seamounts, knolls and banks
      • A6.73 : Oceanic ridges
      •  A6.74 : Abyssal hills
      •  A6.75 : Carbonate mounds
    • 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
  
• E : Grasslands and lands dominated by forbs, mosses or lichens
  
• F : Heathland, scrub and tundra
  
  • F1 : Tundra
    
  • F2 : Arctic, alpine and subalpine scrub
    
    • F2.1 : Subarctic and alpine dwarf willow scrub
    • F2.2 : Evergreen alpine and subalpine heath and scrub
    • F2.3 : Subalpine deciduous scrub
    • F2.4 : Conifer scrub close to the tree limit
  • F3 : Temperate and mediterranean-montane scrub
    
  • F4 : Temperate shrub heathland
    
  • F5 : Maquis, arborescent matorral and thermo-Mediterranean brushes
    
  • F6 : Garrigue
    
    • F6.1 : Western garrigues
    • F6.2 : Eastern garrigues
    • F6.3 : Illyrian garrigues
    • F6.4 : Black Sea garrigues
    •  F6.5 : Macaronesian garrigues
    • F6.6 : Supra-Mediterranean garrigues
    • F6.7 : Mediterranean gypsum scrubs
    • F6.8 : Xero-halophile scrubs
  • F7 : Spiny Mediterranean heaths (phrygana, hedgehog-heaths and related coastal cliff vegetation)
    
  • F8 : Thermo-Atlantic xerophytic scrub
    
  • F9 : Riverine and fen scrubs
    
  • 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
    
• G : Woodland, forest and other wooded land
  
  • G1 : Broadleaved deciduous woodland
    
  • G2 : Broadleaved evergreen woodland
    
  • 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
    
  • 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
    
  • J2 : Low density buildings
    
    •  J2.1 : Scattered residential buildings
    •  J2.2 : Rural public buildings
    • J2.3 : Rural industrial and commercial sites still in active use
    • J2.4 : Agricultural constructions
    • J2.5 : Constructed boundaries
    • J2.6 : Disused rural constructions
      •  J2.61 : Derelict spaces of disused rural constructions
    •  J2.7 : Rural construction and demolition sites
  • 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