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
    
  • MJ4 : Under-ice habitat
    
• N : Coastal habitats
  
• Q : Wetlands
  
  • Q1 : Raised and blanket bogs
    
  • Q2 : Valley mires, poor fens and transition mires
    
  • Q3 : Palsa mires
    
  • Q4 : Base-rich fens and calcareous spring mires
    
  • Q5 : Helophyte beds
    
  • Q6 : Periodically exposed shores
    
• R : Grasslands and lands dominated by forbs, mosses or lichens
  
• S : Heathland, scrub and tundra
  
  • S1 : Tundra
    
  • S2 : Arctic, alpine and subalpine scrub
    
  • S3 : Temperate and mediterranean-montane scrub
    
  • S4 : Temperate shrub heathland
    
    • S41 : Wet heath
      
    • S42 : Dry heath
      
    • S43 : Macaronesian heath
      
  • 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
    
    • S81 : Canarian xerophytic scrub
      
    • S82 : Madeiran xerophytic scrub
      
  • S9 : Riverine and fen scrubs
    
• T : Forest and other wooded land
  
  • T1 : Deciduous broadleaved forest
    
    • T11 : Temperate Salix and Populus riparian forest
      
      • T111 : Temperate and boreal riverine Salix forest
        
      • T112 : Boreo-alpine riparian galleries
        
        • T1121 : Montane Alnus incana galleries
          
        • T1122 : Dealpine Alnus incana galleries
          
        • T1123 : Boreal Alnus incana galleries
          
        • T1124 : Boreal Alnus glutinosa galleries
          
        • T1125 : Western Siberian Betula and pine galleries
          
        • T1126 : Eastern boreal riverine galleries
          
        • T1127 : Ponto-Caucasian montane Alnus galleries
          
    • T12 : Alnus glutinosa-Alnus incana forest on riparian and mineral soils
      
    • 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
      
    • 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
      
      • T1E1 : Quercus - Fraxinus - Carpinus betulus forest on eutrophic and mesotrophic soils
        
      • T1E2 : Non-riverine Fraxinus forest
        
        • T1E21 : Fraxinus - Sorbus aucuparia - Mercurialis perennis forests
          
        • T1E22 : British Fraxinus - Acer campestre - Mercurialis perennis forests
          
        • T1E23 : Pyreneo-Cantabrian Fraxinus forests
          
        • T1E24 : Baltic Fraxinus - Acer pseudoplatanus forests with Adoxa moschatellina
          
        • T1E25 : Mixed Atlantic Fraxinus forests with Hyacinthoides non-scripta
          
        • T1E26 : Aquitanian Fraxinus forests
          
        • T1E27 : Sub-Atlantic Fraxinus forests
          
        • T1E28 : Lutetian calciphile Fraxinus forests
          
        • T1E29 : Post-cultural Fraxinus forests
          
      • T1E3 : Carpinus betulus forest
        
      • T1E4 : Tilia forest
        
      • T1E5 : Non-riverine Ulmus forest
        
      • T1E6 : Mixed deciduous forest of the Black and Caspian Seas
        
      • T1E7 : Eurosiberian Acer forests
        
    • 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
    
    • T41 : Early-stage natural and semi-natural forest and regrowth
      
    • T42 : Coppice and early stage plantations
      
    • T43 : Recently felled areas
      
• U : Inland habitats with no or little soil and mostly with sparse vegetation
  
• V : Vegetated man-made habitats