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
  
• 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
    
  • 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
    
    • T31 : Temperate mountain Picea forest
      
    • T32 : Temperate mountain Abies forest
      
    • T33 : Mediterranean mountain Abies forest
      
    • T34 : Temperate subalpine Larix, Pinus cembra and Pinus uncinata forest
      
    • T35 : Temperate continental Pinus sylvestris forest
      
    • T36 : Temperate and submediterranean montane Pinus sylvestris-Pinus nigra forest
      
      • T361 : Southeastern European Pinus sylvestris forests
        
        • T3611 : Thessalo-Macedonian Pinus sylvestris forests
          
        • T3612 : Rhodopide Pinus sylvestris forests
          
        • T3613 : Balkan Range Pinus sylvestris forests
          
        • T3614 : Southwestern Moesian Pinus sylvestris forests
          
        • T3615 : Dinaric spring heath Pinus sylvestris forests
          
        • T3616 : Dinaric calcicole Pinus sylvestris forests
          
        • T3617 : Dinaric acidophile Pinus sylvestris forests
          
        • T3618 : East Carpathian Sesleria Pinus sylvestris forests
          
        • T3619 : East Carpathian bilberry Pinus sylvestris forests
          
        • T361A : East Carpathian Daphne blagayana Pinus sylvestris forests
          
      • T362 : Po terrace Pinus sylvestris forests
        
      • T363 : Ponto-Caucasian Pinus sylvestris forests
        
      • T364 : Supra-Mediterranean Pinus sylvestris forests
        
      • T365 : Alpino-Apennine Pinus nigra forests
        
      • T366 : Western Balkanic Pinus nigra forests
        
      • T367 : Pinus pallasiana and Pinus banatica forests
        
      • T368 : Pinus sylvestris forest on chalk in the steppe zone
        
      • T369 : Pinus nigra reforestation
        
    • T37 : Mediterranean montane Pinus sylvestris-Pinus nigra forest
      
    • T38 : Mediterranean montane Cedrus forest
      
      • T381 : Cedrus libani forests
        
      • T382 : Cedrus brevifolia forests
        
    • T39 : Mediterranean and Balkan subalpine Pinus heldreichii-Pinus peuce forest
      
    • T3A : Mediterranean lowland to submontane Pinus forest
      
    • T3B : Pinus canariensis forest
      
    • T3C : Taxus baccata forest
      
    • T3D : Mediterranean Cupressaceae forest
      
    • T3E : Macaronesian Juniperus forest
      
    • T3F : Dark taiga
      
    • T3G : Pinus sylvestris light taiga
      
    • T3H : Larix light taiga
      
    • T3J : Pinus and Larix mire forest
      
    • T3K : Picea mire forest
      
      • T3K1 : Boreal Picea and Picea - Betula fen and bog forests
        
      • T3K2 : Boreal Picea swamp forests
        
      • T3K3 : Nemoral peatmoss Picea forests
        
      • T3K4 : Nemoral bog Picea forests
        
    • T3L : Coniferous self sown forest of non site-native trees
      
    • T3M : Coniferous plantation of non site-native trees
      
      • T3M1 : Exotic spruce, fir, larch, douglas fir, deodar plantations
        
      • T3M2 : Exotic pine plantations
        
      • T3M3 : Other exotic conifer plantations
        
    • T3N : Coniferous plantation of site-native trees
      
  • 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