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
    
    • 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
      
      • S421 : Submontane Vaccinium - Calluna heaths
        
        • S4211 : North Atlantic Vaccinium - Empetrum - Racomitrium heaths
          
        • S4212 : Sub-boreal Vaccinium heaths
          
        • S4213 : Hercynian Vaccinium heaths
          
        • S4214 : Submontane Alpine Vaccinium heaths
          
        • S4215 : Submontane Pyreneo-Cantabrian Vaccinium heaths
          
        • S4216 : Collinar-montane Carpathian Vaccinium heaths
          
      • S422 : Sub-Atlantic Calluna - Genista heaths
        
      • S423 : Atlantic Erica - Ulex heaths
        
        • S4231 : Maritime gorse heaths
          
        • S4232 : Hiberno-Britannic Calluna vulgaris - Ulex gallii heaths
          
        • S4233 : Irish Erica mackaiana heaths
          
        • S4234 : Northern Erica vagans heaths
          
        • S4235 : Anglo-Armorican Erica cinerea - Ulex gallii heaths
          
        • S4236 : Cantabro-Pyrenean Erica mackaiana - E. cinerea heaths
          
        • S4237 : Cantabro-Pyrenean Erica vagans - E. cinerea heaths
          
        • S4238 : Gallo-Britannic dwarf gorse heaths
          
        • S4239 : Aquitano-Ligerian dwarf gorse heaths
          
      • S424 : Ibero-Atlantic Erica - Ulex - Cistus heaths
        
      • S425 : Boreo-Atlantic Erica cinerea heaths
        
      • S426 : Inland dune heaths
        
    • 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
    
  • S9 : Riverine and fen scrubs
    
• T : Forest and other wooded land
  
• U : Inland habitats with no or little soil and mostly with sparse vegetation
  
  • U1 : Terrestrial underground caves, cave systems, passages and waterbodies
    
    • U11 : Cave
      
    • U12 : Disused underground mines and tunnels
      
  • U2 : Screes
    
  • U3 : Inland cliffs, rock pavements and outcrops
    
  • U4 : Snow or ice-dominated habitats
    
    • U41 : Snow pack
      
    • U42 : Ice cap and glacier
      
      • U421 : Ice sheets and ice caps
        
      • U422 : Cirque and valley glaciers
        
      • U423 : Glacierets
        
    • U43 : Rock glacier and unvegetated ice-dominated moraine
      
  • U5 : Miscellaneous inland habitats usually with very sparse or no vegetation
    
  • U6 : Recent volcanic features
    
    • U61 : Subarctic volcanic field
      
    • U62 : Mediterranean, Macaronesian and temperate volcanic field
      
• V : Vegetated man-made habitats