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
  
  • S1 : Tundra
    
  • S2 : Arctic, alpine and subalpine scrub
    
    • S21 : Subarctic and alpine dwarf Salix scrub
      
    • S22 : Alpine and subalpine ericoid heath
      
    • S23 : Alpine and subalpine Juniperus scrub
      
    • S24 : Subalpine genistoid scrub of the Amphi-Adriatic region
      
    • S25 : Subalpine and subarctic deciduous scrub
      
    • S26 : Subalpine Pinus mugo scrub
      
      • S261 : Inner Alpine Pinus mugo scrub
        
      • S262 : Outer Alpine Pinus mugo scrub
        
      • S263 : Southwestern Pinus mugo scrub
        
      • S264 : Apennine Pinus mugo scrub
        
      • S265 : Hercynian Pinus mugo scrub
        
      • S266 : Carpathian Pinus mugo scrub
        
      • S267 : Pelago-Dinaride Pinus mugo scrub
        
      • S268 : Balkano-Rhodopide Pinus mugo scrub
        
    • S27 : Krummholz with conifers other than Pinus mugo
      
  • S3 : Temperate and mediterranean-montane scrub
    
  • S4 : Temperate shrub heathland
    
  • 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
    
  • S9 : Riverine and fen scrubs
    
• T : Forest and other wooded land
  
  • T1 : Deciduous broadleaved forest
    
  • 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