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
    
    • MJ21 : Arctic freshwater ice
      
  • MJ3 : Brine channels
    
  • MJ4 : Under-ice habitat
    
• N : Coastal habitats
  
• 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
    
  • S4 : Temperate shrub heathland
    
  • S5 : Maquis, arborescent matorral and thermo-Mediterranean scrub
    
  • S6 : Garrigue
    
    • S61 : Western basiphilous garrigue
      
    • S62 : Western acidophilous garrigue
      
    • S63 : Eastern garrigue
      
    • S64 : Macaronesian garrigue
      
    • S65 : Mediterranean gypsum scrub
      
    • S66 : Mediterranean halo-nitrophilous scrub
      
      • S661 : Canary Island xero-halophilous scrubs
        
      • S662 : Mediterranean halo-nitrophilous scrubs
        
        • S6621 : Ebro sisallares
          
        • S6622 : Manchegan sisallares
          
        • S6623 : Catalano-Valencian halo-nitrophilous scrubs
          
        • S6624 : Southeastern Iberian matojares
          
        • S6625 : Sicilian halo-nitrophilous scrubs
          
      • S663 : Interior Iberian salt scrubs
        
        • S6631 : Interior woody seablite scrubs
          
        • S6632 : Interior glaucous glasswort scrubs
          
        • S6633 : Interior creeping glasswort scrubs
          
    • S67 : Aralo-Caspian semi-desert
      
    • S68 : Semi-desert sand dune with sparse scrub
      
  • 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
    
  • 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