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
  
  • MJ1 : Sea ice
    
  • MJ2 : Freshwater ice
    
  • MJ3 : Brine channels
    
    • MJ31 : Arctic brine channels
      
    • MJ32 : Baltic brine channels
      
  • MJ4 : Under-ice habitat
    
    • MJ41 : Arctic under-ice habitat
      
    • MJ42 : Baltic under-ice habitat
      
• N : Coastal habitats
  
• R : Grasslands and lands dominated by forbs, mosses or lichens
  
  • R1 : Dry grasslands
    
  • R2 : Mesic grasslands
    
    • R21 : Mesic permanent pasture of lowlands and mountains
      
      • R211 : Unbroken pastures
        
      • R212 : Ditch-broken pastures
        
      • R213 : Abandoned pastures
        
      • R214 : Species-rich lowland flood meadows
        
      • R215 : Macaronesian mesic grassland
        
      • R216 : Boreo-arctic Agrostis-Festuca grasslands
        
    • R22 : Low and medium altitude hay meadow
      
    • R23 : Mountain hay meadow
      
    • R24 : Iberian summer pasture (vallicar)
      
  • R3 : Seasonally wet and wet grasslands
    
    • R31 : Mediterranean tall humid inland grassland
      
    • R32 : Mediterranean short moist grassland of lowlands
      
    • R33 : Mediterranean short moist grassland of mountains
      
    • R34 : Submediterranean moist meadow
      
    • R35 : Moist or wet mesotrophic to eutrophic hay meadow
      
    • R36 : Moist or wet mesotrophic to eutrophic pasture
      
    • R37 : Temperate and boreal moist or wet oligotrophic grassland
      
  • 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
      
  • R5 : Forest fringes and clearings and tall forb stands
    
  • R6 : Inland salt steppes and salt marshes
    
    • R61 : Mediterranean inland salt steppe
      
      • R611 : Mediterranean Limonium salt steppes
        
      • R612 : Mediterranean Lygeum spartum salt steppes
        
      • R613 : Mediterranean inland halo-nitrophilous pioneer communities
        
    • R62 : Continental inland salt steppe
      
    • R63 : Temperate inland salt marsh
      
    • R64 : Semi-desert salt pan
      
    • R65 : Continental subsaline alluvial pasture and meadow
      
  • R7 : Sparsely wooded grasslands
    
• S : Heathland, scrub and tundra
  
• T : Forest and other wooded land
  
  • T1 : Deciduous broadleaved forest
    
  • T2 : Broadleaved evergreen forest
    
    • T21 : Mediterranean evergreen Quercus forest
      
    • T22 : Mainland laurophyllous forest
      
    • T23 : Macaronesian laurophyllous forest
      
    • T24 : Olea europaea-Ceratonia siliqua forest
      
    • T25 : Phoenix theophrasti vegetation
      
    • T26 : Phoenix canariensis vegetation
      
    • T27 : Ilex aquifolium forest
      
    • T28 : Macaronesian heathy forest
      
    • T29 : Broadleaved evergreen plantation of non site-native trees
      
    • T2A : Broadleaved evergreen plantation of site-native trees
      
  • T3 : Coniferous forest
    
  • T4 : Lines of trees, small anthropogenic forests, recently felled forest, early-stage forest and coppice
    
• U : Inland habitats with no or little soil and mostly with sparse vegetation
  
• V : Vegetated man-made habitats