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
    
    • S11 : Shrub tundra
      
    • S12 : Moss and lichen 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
    
    • T21 : Mediterranean evergreen Quercus forest
      
    • T22 : Mainland laurophyllous forest
      
      • T221 : Mediterraneo-Atlantic Laurus - Quercus forest
        
      • T222 : Ponto-Hyrcanian sclerophyllous forests
        
    • T23 : Macaronesian laurophyllous forest
      
    • T24 : Olea europaea-Ceratonia siliqua forest
      
    • T25 : Phoenix theophrasti vegetation
      
    • T26 : Phoenix canariensis vegetation
      
    • T27 : Ilex aquifolium forest
      
    • T28 : Macaronesian heathy forest
      
    • T29 : Broadleaved evergreen plantation of non site-native trees
      
      • T291 : Eucalyptus plantations
        
      • T292 : Evergreen exotic Quercus plantations
        
      • T293 : Other evergreen broadleaved tree plantations
        
    • T2A : Broadleaved evergreen plantation of site-native trees
      
  • 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
      
      • T341 : Eastern Alpine siliceous Larix and Pinus cembra forests
        
      • T342 : Eastern Alpine calcicolous Larix and Pinus cembra forests
        
      • T343 : Western Larix, mountain pine and Pinus cembra forests
        
      • T344 : Alpine secondary Larix formations
        
      • T345 : Carpathian Larix and Pinus cembra forests
        
      • T346 : Larix polonica forests
        
      • T347 : Pinus uncinata forests with Rhododendron ferrugineum
        
      • T348 : Xerocline Pinus uncinata forests
        
      • T349 : Pinus uncinata reforestation
        
    • T35 : Temperate continental Pinus sylvestris forest
      
    • T36 : Temperate and submediterranean montane Pinus sylvestris-Pinus nigra forest
      
    • T37 : Mediterranean montane Pinus sylvestris-Pinus nigra forest
      
    • T38 : Mediterranean montane Cedrus forest
      
    • 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
      
      • T3H1 : Larix russica taiga
        
    • T3J : Pinus and Larix mire forest
      
    • T3K : Picea mire forest
      
    • T3L : Coniferous self sown forest of non site-native trees
      
    • T3M : Coniferous plantation of non site-native trees
      
    • 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
      
      • T411 : Deciduous scrub forest
        
      • T412 : Mixed scrub forest
        
      • T413 : Coniferous scrub forest
        
      • T414 : Raised bog pre-forests
        
    • 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