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
  
• R : Grasslands and lands dominated by forbs, mosses or lichens
  
  • R1 : Dry grasslands
    
  • R2 : Mesic grasslands
    
  • R3 : Seasonally wet and wet grasslands
    
  • R4 : Alpine and subalpine grasslands
    
  • R5 : Forest fringes and clearings and tall forb stands
    
  • R6 : Inland salt steppes and salt marshes
    
    • R61 : Mediterranean inland salt steppe
      
      • R611 : Mediterranean Limonium salt steppes
        
      • R612 : Mediterranean Lygeum spartum salt steppes
        
      • R613 : Mediterranean inland halo-nitrophilous pioneer communities
        
    • R62 : Continental inland salt steppe
      
    • R63 : Temperate inland salt marsh
      
    • R64 : Semi-desert salt pan
      
    • R65 : Continental subsaline alluvial pasture and meadow
      
  • R7 : Sparsely wooded grasslands
    
• S : Heathland, scrub and tundra
  
  • S1 : Tundra
    
    • S11 : Shrub tundra
      
      • S111 : Western shrub tundra
        
    • S12 : Moss and lichen tundra
      
      • S121 : Cladonia - espalier willow tundra
        
      • S122 : Moss 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
    
    • S91 : Temperate riparian scrub
      
      • S911 : Orogenous riverine brush
        
      • S912 : Lowland and collinar riverine Salix scrub
        
      • S913 : Montane river gravel low brush
        
      • S914 : Gravel bank thickets and forests
        
    • S92 : Salix fen scrub
      
      • S921 : Grey willow carrs
        
      • S922 : Sphagnum willow carrs
        
      • S923 : Bay willow carrs
        
      • S924 : Dwarf willow mire scrubs
        
      • S925 : Boreal sedge willow carrs
        
      • S926 : Boreo-alpine willow fen scrubs
        
    • S93 : Mediterranean riparian scrub
      
      • S931 : Nerium oleander, Vitex agnus-castus and Tamarix galleries
        
      • S932 : Southwestern Iberian tamujares, formed by Securinega tinctoria
        
      • S933 : Lauriphyllous galleries of the Cordillera Oretana
        
      • S934 : Myrica gale - Salix scrub of the Cordillera Oretana
        
      • S935 : Riparian stands of invasive shrubs
        
    • S94 : Semi-desert riparian scrub
      
• 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