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
  
• 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
    
    • R41 : Snow-bed vegetation
      
    • R42 : Boreal and arctic acidophilous alpine grassland
      
    • R43 : Temperate acidophilous alpine grassland
      
    • R44 : Arctic-alpine calcareous grassland
      
    • R45 : Alpine and subalpine calcareous grassland of the Balkans and Apennines
      
      • R451 : Closed calciphile alpine grassland of the Balkans and Apennines
        
        • R4511 : Violet fescue swards and related communities of the Balkans and Apennines
          
        • R4512 : Dinaro-Moesian oligophile closed calcicolous grasslands
          
        • R4513 : Dinaro-Moesian mesophile closed calcicolous grasslands
          
      • R452 : Wind edge Kobresia myosuroides swards of the Balkans and Apennines
        
      • R453 : Calciphilous stepped and garland grassland of the Balkans and Apennines
        
  • 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
  
  • V1 : Arable land and market gardens
    
    • V11 : Intensive unmixed crops
      
      • V111 : Large-scale intensive unmixed crops (>25ha)
        
      • V112 : Medium-scale intensive unmixed crops (1-25ha)
        
      • V113 : Small-scale intensive unmixed crops (<1ha)
        
    • V12 : Mixed crops of market gardens and horticulture
      
    • V13 : Arable land with unmixed crops grown by low-intensity agricultural methods
      
    • V14 : Inundated or inundatable croplands, including rice fields
      
    • V15 : Bare tilled, fallow or recently abandoned arable land
      
  • V2 : Cultivated areas of gardens and parks
    
  • V3 : Artificial grasslands and herb dominated habitats
    
  • V4 : Hedgerows
    
  • V5 : Shrub plantations
    
  • V6 : Tree dominated man-made habitats