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)
  
• MH : Pelagic water column
  
• MJ : Ice-associated marine habitats
  
• N : Coastal habitats
  
• Q : Wetlands
  
  • Q1 : Raised and blanket bogs
    
  • Q2 : Valley mires, poor fens and transition mires
    
    • Q21 : Oceanic valley mire
      
    • Q22 : Poor fen
      
    • Q23 : Relict mire of Mediterranean mountains
      
    • Q24 : Intermediate fen and soft-water spring mire
      
    • Q25 : Non-calcareous quaking mire
      
      • Q251 : Carex lasiocarpa swards
        
      • Q252 : Carex diandra quaking mires
        
      • Q253 : Carex rostrata quaking mires
        
        • Q2531 : Acidocline bottle sedge quaking mires
          
        • Q2532 : Basicline bottle sedge quaking mires
          
      • Q254 : Carex limosa swards
        
      • Q255 : Carex chordorrhiza swards
        
      • Q256 : Carex heleonastes swards
        
      • Q257 : Rhynchospora alba quaking bogs
        
      • Q258 : Sphagnum and Eriophorum rafts
        
      • Q259 : Menyanthes trifoliata and Potentilla palustris rafts
        
      • Q25A : Calla palustris mires
        
      • Q25B : Brown moss carpets
        
      • Q25C : Eriophorum vaginatum quaking bogs
        
      • Q25D : Molinia caerulea quaking bogs
        
      • Q25E : Calamagrostis stricta quaking bogs
        
      • Q25F : Scirpus hudsonianus (Trichophorum alpinum) quaking bogs
        
      • Q25G : Iberian quaking bogs
        
      • Q25H : Wet, open, acid peat and sand, with Rhynchospora alba and Drosera
        
      • Q25J : Balkanic quaking bogs
        
  • Q3 : Palsa mires
    
  • Q4 : Base-rich fens and calcareous spring mires
    
  • Q5 : Helophyte beds
    
    • Q51 : Tall-helophyte bed
      
      • Q511 : Phragmites australis beds
        
      • Q512 : Scirpus lacustris beds
        
      • Q513 : Typha beds
        
      • Q514 : Medium-tall non-graminoid waterside communities
        
      • Q515 : Water-fringe medium-tall grass beds
        
      • Q516 : Phalaris arundinacea beds
        
      • Q517 : Halophile Scirpus, Bolboschoenus and Schoenoplectus beds
        
      • Q518 : Riparian Cladium mariscus beds
        
      • Q519 : Water-fringing large sedge communities
        
      • Q51A : Brackish and alkaline Cirsium brachycephalum beds
        
      • Q51B : Phragmites australis beds normally without free-standing water
        
      • Q51C : Scirpus lacustris beds normally without free-standing water
        
      • Q51D : Typha beds normally without free-standing water
        
    • Q52 : Small-helophyte bed
      
    • Q53 : Tall-sedge bed
      
    • Q54 : Inland saline or brackish helophyte bed
      
  • Q6 : Periodically exposed shores
    
• R : Grasslands and lands dominated by forbs, mosses or lichens
  
  • R1 : Dry grasslands
    
  • R2 : Mesic grasslands
    
  • R3 : Seasonally wet and wet grasslands
    
  • R4 : Alpine and subalpine grasslands
    
  • R5 : Forest fringes and clearings and tall forb stands
    
  • R6 : Inland salt steppes and salt marshes
    
  • R7 : Sparsely wooded grasslands
    
• S : Heathland, scrub and tundra
  
• T : Forest and other wooded land
  
• U : Inland habitats with no or little soil and mostly with sparse vegetation
  
• V : Vegetated man-made habitats