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
  
  • MH1 : Neuston
    
  • MH2 : Completely mixed water column with reduced salinity
    
    • MH21 : Arctic completely mixed water column with reduced salinity
      
    • MH22 : Atlantic completely mixed water column with reduced salinity
      
    • MH23 : Baltic completely mixed water column with reduced salinity
      
    • MH24 : Black Sea completely mixed water column with reduced salinity
      
    • MH25 : Mediterranean completely mixed water column with reduced salinity
      
  • MH3 : Completely mixed water column with full salinity
    
  • MH4 : Partially mixed water column with reduced salinity and medium or long residence time
    
  • MH5 : Unstratified water column with reduced salinity
    
  • MH6 : Vertically stratified water column with reduced salinity
    
  • MH7 : Fronts in reduced salinity water column
    
  • MH8 : Unstratified water column with full salinity
    
  • MH9 : Vertically stratified water column with full salinity
    
  • MHA : Fronts in full salinity water column
    
• MJ : Ice-associated marine habitats
  
  • MJ1 : Sea ice
    
    • MJ11 : Arctic sea ice
      
    • MJ12 : Baltic sea ice
      
      • MJ121 : Seasonal Baltic pack-ice
        
      • MJ122 : Baltic Ice floes
        
  • MJ2 : Freshwater ice
    
  • MJ3 : Brine channels
    
  • MJ4 : Under-ice habitat
    
• N : Coastal habitats
  
  • N1 : Coastal dunes and sandy shores
    
  • N2 : Coastal shingle
    
  • N3 : Rock cliffs, ledges and shores, including the supralittoral
    
• 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
    
  • R7 : Sparsely wooded grasslands
    
• 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
    
  • S5 : Maquis, arborescent matorral and thermo-Mediterranean scrub
    
  • S6 : Garrigue
    
    • S61 : Western basiphilous garrigue
      
    • S62 : Western acidophilous garrigue
      
    • S63 : Eastern garrigue
      
      • S631 : Eastern Quercus coccifera garrigues
        
      • S632 : Eastern Rosmarinus officinalis garrigues
        
      • S633 : Eastern Cistus garrigues
        
      • S634 : Eastern Euphorbia garrigues
        
      • S635 : Eastern Juniperus oxycedrus garrigues
        
      • S636 : Eastern Lavandula garrigues
        
      • S637 : Eastern Teucrium and other labiates garrigues
        
      • S638 : Eastern Paliurus spina-christi garrigues
        
      • S639 : Eastern broom garrigues
        
      • S63A : Ebenus cretica brushes
        
      • S63B : Eastern Helichrysum and other composite garrigues
        
      • S63C : Eastern Erica garrigues
        
      • S63D : Arbutus andrachne garrigues
        
      • S63E : Eastern Globularia garrigues
        
      • S63F : Eastern Helianthemum and Fumana garrigues
        
      • S63G : Eastern Thymelaea garrigues
        
      • S63H : Eastern Bupleurum garrigues
        
      • S63J : East Mediterranean pre-desert scrub
        
      • S63K : Illyrian Quercus coccifera garrigues
        
      • S63L : Illyrian Rosmarinus officinalis garrigues
        
      • S63M : Illyrian Cistus garrigues
        
      • S63N : Illyrian Euphorbia garrigues
        
      • S63P : Illyrian Juniperus oxycedrus garrigues
        
      • S63Q : Illyrian Teucrium and other labiates garrigues
        
      • S63R : Illyrian Paliurus spina-christi garrigues
        
      • S63S : Illyrian broom garrigues
        
      • S63T : Illyrian Helichrysum and other composite garrigues
        
      • S63U : Illyrian Erica garrigues
        
      • S63V : Crimean garrigues
        
      • S63X : South-Euxinian garrigues
        
      • S63Y : Thracian garrigues
        
      • S63Z : Balkan peninsula supra-Mediterranean garrigues
        
    • S64 : Macaronesian garrigue
      
    • S65 : Mediterranean gypsum scrub
      
    • S66 : Mediterranean halo-nitrophilous scrub
      
    • 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
  
• U : Inland habitats with no or little soil and mostly with sparse vegetation
  
• V : Vegetated man-made habitats