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
  
  • N1 : Coastal dunes and sandy shores
    
  • N2 : Coastal shingle
    
  • N3 : Rock cliffs, ledges and shores, including the supralittoral
    
• 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
    
  • S3 : Temperate and mediterranean-montane scrub
    
    • S31 : Lowland to montane temperate and submediterranean Juniperus scrub
      
    • S32 : Temperate Rubus scrub
      
    • S33 : Lowland to montane temperate and submediterranean genistoid scrub
      
    • S34 : Balkan-Anatolian submontane genistoid scrub
      
    • S35 : Temperate and submediterranean thorn scrub
      
    • S36 : Low steppic scrub
      
    • S37 : Corylus avellana scrub
      
    • S38 : Temperate forest clearing scrub
      
  • S4 : Temperate shrub heathland
    
    • S41 : Wet heath
      
    • S42 : Dry heath
      
    • S43 : Macaronesian heath
      
  • 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
    
    • S81 : Canarian xerophytic scrub
      
    • S82 : Madeiran 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
    
    • 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
  
  • V1 : Arable land and market gardens
    
  • V2 : Cultivated areas of gardens and parks
    
  • V3 : Artificial grasslands and herb dominated habitats
    
    • V31 : Agriculturally-improved,
      
    • V32 : Mediterranean subnitrophilous annual grasslands
      
    • V33 : Dry mediterranean lands with unpalatable non-vernal herbaceous vegetation
      
    • V34 : Trampled xeric grasslands with annuals
      
    • V35 : Trampled mesophilous grasslands with annuals
      
    • V36 : Alpine and subalpine enriched grassland
      
      • V361 : Subalpine Trisetum flavescens hay meadows
        
      • V362 : Leontodon hispidus pastures
        
      • V363 : Dinaric sub-alpine tall grasslands
        
    • V37 : Annual anthropogenic herbaceous vegetation
      
    • V38 : Dry perennial anthropogenic herbaceous vegetation
      
    • V39 : Mesic perennial anthropogenic herbaceous vegetation
      
  • V4 : Hedgerows
    
    • V41 : Hedgerows of non-native species
      
    • V42 : Highly-managed hedgerows of native species
      
    • V43 : Species-rich hedgerows of native species
      
    • V44 : Species-poor hedgerows of native species
      
  • V5 : Shrub plantations
    
  • V6 : Tree dominated man-made habitats