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
  
  • MH1 : Neuston
    
    • MH11 : Arctic neuston
      
    • MH12 : Atlantic neuston
      
    • MH13 : Baltic neuston
      
    • MH14 : Black Sea neuston
      
    • MH15 : Mediterranean neuston
      
  • MH2 : Completely mixed water column with reduced salinity
    
  • MH3 : Completely mixed water column with full salinity
    
  • MH4 : Partially mixed water column with reduced salinity and medium or long residence time
    
  • MH5 : Unstratified water column with reduced salinity
    
  • MH6 : Vertically stratified water column with reduced salinity
    
  • MH7 : Fronts in reduced salinity water column
    
  • MH8 : Unstratified water column with full salinity
    
  • MH9 : Vertically stratified water column with full salinity
    
  • MHA : Fronts in full salinity water column
    
• MJ : Ice-associated marine habitats
  
  • MJ1 : Sea ice
    
  • MJ2 : Freshwater ice
    
  • MJ3 : Brine channels
    
    • MJ31 : Arctic brine channels
      
      • MJ311 : Arctic brine channels in first year ice
        
      • MJ312 : Brine channels in multi-year ice
        
    • 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
  
• 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
      
    • T13 : Temperate hardwood riparian forest
      
    • T14 : Mediterranean and Macaronesian riparian forest
      
      • T141 : Mediterranean and Macaronesian Salix forest
        
      • T142 : Mediterranean riparian Populus forests
        
      • T143 : Mediterranean riparian Ulmus forests
        
      • T144 : Mediterranean riparian Fraxinus forests
        
      • T145 : Mediterranean riverine Ostrya carpinifolia galleries
        
      • T146 : Mediterraneo-Pontic riverine Fraxinus forests
        
      • T147 : Ponto-Sarmatic mixed Populus riverine forests
        
      • T148 : Irano-Anatolian mixed riverine forests
        
      • T149 : Platanus orientalis forests
        
      • T14A : Liquidambar orientalis forests
        
      • T14B : Southern Alnus and Betula galleries
        
    • T15 : Broadleaved swamp forest on non-acid peat
      
      • T151 : Alnus swamp forests not on acid peat
        
      • T152 : Quercus swamp forests
        
      • T153 : Populus tremula swamp forests
        
      • T154 : Wet-ground forest of the Black and Caspian Seas
        
    • 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
      
      • T1C1 : Birch forest not on marshy terrain
        
      • T1C2 : Populus tremula forest
        
      • T1C3 : Sorbus aucuparia forest
        
      • T1C4 : Inland dune Quercus - Betula forests
        
      • T1C5 : Populus tremula and Betula forests with Sambucus
        
    • T1D : Southern European mountain Betula and Populus tremula forest on mineral soils
      
    • T1E : Carpinus and Quercus mesic deciduous forest
      
    • T1F : Ravine forest
      
      • T1F1 : Medio-European ravine forests
        
      • T1F2 : Hercynian slope forests
        
      • T1F3 : Peri-Alpine mixed Fraxinus - Acer pseudoplatanus slope forests
        
      • T1F4 : Pyreneo-Cantabrian mixed Ulmus - Quercus forests
        
      • T1F5 : Thermophilous Alpine and peri-Alpine mixed Tilia forests
        
      • T1F6 : Southeastern European ravine forests
        
      • T1F7 : Euxinian ravine forests
        
    • 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