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
  
• R : Grasslands and lands dominated by forbs, mosses or lichens
  
• S : Heathland, scrub and tundra
  
• T : Forest and other wooded land
  
  • T1 : Deciduous broadleaved forest
    
    • T11 : Temperate Salix and Populus riparian forest
      
    • T12 : Alnus glutinosa-Alnus incana forest on riparian and mineral soils
      
      • T121 : Riverine Fraxinus - Alnus forest, wet at high but not at low water
        
        • T1211 : Fraxinus - Alnus forests of rivulets and springs
          
        • T1212 : Fraxinus - Alnus forests of fast-flowing rivers
          
          • T12121 : Collinar stream ash-alder forests
            
          • T12122 : Submontane Hercynian stream ash-alder forests
            
          • T12123 : Pre-Carpathian stream ash-alder forests
            
        • T1213 : Fraxinus - Alnus forests of slow rivers
          
          • T12131 : Central European slow river floodplain forests
            
          • T12132 : West European tall herb ash-alder forests
            
          • T12133 : Ponto-Pannonic tall herb ash-alder forests
            
          • T12134 : Eastern Baltic slow river floodplain forests
            
          • T12135 : Sarmatic ash-alder forests
            
        • T1214 : Northern Iberian Alnus galleries
          
      • T122 : Boreal and boreonemoral Alnus forests
        
      • T123 : Nemoral Alnus forests
        
    • T13 : Temperate hardwood riparian forest
      
    • T14 : Mediterranean and Macaronesian riparian forest
      
    • T15 : Broadleaved swamp forest on non-acid peat
      
    • T16 : Broadleaved mire forest on acid peat
      
    • T17 : Fagus forest on non-acid soils
      
    • T18 : Fagus forest on acid soils
      
    • T19 : Temperate and submediterranean thermophilous deciduous forest
      
    • T1A : Mediterranean thermophilous deciduous forest
      
    • T1B : Acidophilous Quercus forest
      
      • T1B1 : Atlantic Quercus robur - Betula forests
        
      • T1B2 : Atlantic acidophilous Fagus - Quercus forests
        
      • T1B3 : Atlantic Quercus petraea forests
        
      • T1B4 : Aquitano-Ligerian Quercus forests on podsols
        
      • T1B5 : Aquitano-Ligerian Quercus forests on leached or acid soils
        
      • T1B6 : Ibero-Atlantic acidophilous Quercus forests
        
      • T1B7 : Medio-European acidophilous Quercus forests
        
      • T1B8 : Insubrian acidophilous Quercus forests
        
      • T1B9 : Portuguese Quercus robur forests
        
      • T1BA : Continental Quercus petraea forests
        
    • T1C : Temperate and boreal mountain Betula and Populus tremula forest on mineral soils
      
    • T1D : Southern European mountain Betula and Populus tremula forest on mineral soils
      
    • T1E : Carpinus and Quercus mesic deciduous forest
      
    • T1F : Ravine forest
      
    • T1G : Alnus cordata forest
      
    • T1H : Broadleaved deciduous plantation of non site-native trees
      
    • T1J : Deciduous self sown forest of non site-native trees
      
    • T1K : Broadleaved deciduous plantation of site-native trees
      
  • T2 : Broadleaved evergreen forest
    
  • 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