EUNIS habitat type hierarchical view (marine version 2022 & terrestrial version 2021)
The EUNIS habitat classification review is on-going. Four groups are pending review: Inland waters, Wetlands, Constructed, industrial and other artificial habitats and Complexes.-
M : Marine benthic habitats (MA-MG)
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MH : Pelagic water column
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MJ : Ice-associated marine habitats
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N : Coastal habitats
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Q : Wetlands
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R : Grasslands and lands dominated by forbs, mosses or lichens
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R1 : Dry grasslands
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R2 : Mesic grasslands
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R3 : Seasonally wet and wet grasslands
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R4 : Alpine and subalpine grasslands
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R5 : Forest fringes and clearings and tall forb stands
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R6 : Inland salt steppes and salt marshes
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R7 : Sparsely wooded grasslands
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R71 : Temperate wooded pasture and meadow
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R72 : Hemiboreal and boreal wooded pasture and meadow
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R73 : Mediterranean wooded pasture and meadow
S : Heathland, scrub and tundra
S1 : Tundra
S2 : Arctic, alpine and subalpine scrub
S21 : Subarctic and alpine dwarf Salix scrub
S22 : Alpine and subalpine ericoid heath
S221 : Alpide dwarf ericoid wind heaths
S222 : Alpide acidocline Rhododendron heaths
S223 : Alpigenic high mountain Empetrum - Vaccinium heaths
S224 : Boreo-alpine and arctic heaths
S225 : Bruckenthalia heaths
S226 : Alpide Arctostaphylos uva-ursi and Arctostaphylos alpinus heaths
S227 : Alpide Rhododendron hirsutum - Erica heaths
S228 : Dryas octopetala mats
S229 : Alpide high mountain dwarf Vaccinium heaths
S23 : Alpine and subalpine Juniperus scrub
S24 : Subalpine genistoid scrub of the Amphi-Adriatic region
S25 : Subalpine and subarctic deciduous scrub
S26 : Subalpine Pinus mugo scrub
S27 : Krummholz with conifers other than Pinus mugo
S3 : Temperate and mediterranean-montane scrub
S4 : Temperate shrub heathland
S5 : Maquis, arborescent matorral and thermo-Mediterranean scrub
S6 : Garrigue
S7 : Spiny Mediterranean heaths (phrygana, hedgehog-heaths and related coastal cliff vegetation)
S8 : Thermo-Atlantic xerophytic scrub
S9 : Riverine and fen scrubs
T : Forest and other wooded land
U : Inland habitats with no or little soil and mostly with sparse vegetation
V : Vegetated man-made habitats