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
    
  • 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
  
• 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
  
• 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
    
  • U2 : Screes
    
    • U21 : Boreal and arctic siliceous scree and block field
      
    • U22 : Temperate high-mountain siliceous scree
      
    • U23 : Temperate, lowland to montane siliceous scree
      
    • U24 : Mediterranean siliceous scree
      
    • U25 : Boreal and arctic base-rich scree and block field
      
    • U26 : Temperate high-mountain base-rich scree and moraine
      
    • U27 : Temperate, lowland to montane base-rich scree
      
    • U28 : Western Mediterranean base-rich scree
      
    • U29 : Eastern Mediterranean base-rich scree
      
    • U2A : Crimean base-rich screes
      
  • U3 : Inland cliffs, rock pavements and outcrops
    
    • U31 : Boreal and arctic siliceous inland cliff
      
    • U32 : Temperate high-mountain siliceous inland cliff
      
    • U33 : Temperate, lowland to montane siliceous inland cliff
      
    • U34 : Mediterranean siliceous inland cliff
      
    • U35 : Boreal and arctic base-rich inland cliff
      
    • U36 : Temperate high-mountain base-rich inland cliff
      
      • U361 : Central Pyrenean calcicolous chasmophyte communities
        
      • U362 : Liguro-Apennine calcicolous chasmophyte communities
        
      • U363 : Alpine and sub-mediterranean chasmophyte communities
        
      • U364 : Temperate high-mountain bare limestone inland cliffs
        
      • U365 : Temperate high-mountain disused chalk and limestone quarries
        
    • U37 : Temperate, lowland to montane base-rich inland cliff
      
      • U371 : Illyrio-Helleno-Balkanic Potentilla cliffs
        
      • U372 : Lowland middle European calcareous cliff communities
        
      • U373 : Temperate, lowland to montane bare limestone inland cliffs
        
      • U374 : Temperate, lowland to montane disused chalk and limestone quarries
        
    • U38 : Mediterranean base-rich inland cliff
      
      • U381 : Tyrrheno-Adriatic eumediterranean calcicolous chasmophyte communities
        
      • U382 : Western mediterraneo-montane chasmophyte communities
        
      • U383 : Hellenic eumediterranean calcicolous chasmophyte communities
        
      • U384 : Aegeo-east-Mediterranean base-rich inland chasmophyte communities
        
      • U385 : Southern Hellenic Potentilla cliffs
        
      • U386 : Central Hellenic Potentilla cliffs
        
      • U387 : Mediterranean bare limestone inland cliffs
        
      • U388 : Mediterraneo-Anatolian calcicolous chasmophyte communities
        
      • U389 : Mediterranean disused chalk and limestone quarries
        
    • U39 : Boreal ultramafic inland cliff
      
      • U391 : Boreal and arctic serpentine and basaltic cliff communities
        
      • U392 : Boreal bare inland basaltic and ultra-basic cliffs
        
    • U3A : Temperate ultramafic inland cliff
      
    • U3B : Mediterranean ultramafic inland cliff
      
    • U3C : Macaronesian inland cliff
      
    • U3D : Wet inland cliff
      
    • U3E : Limestone pavement
      
  • U4 : Snow or ice-dominated habitats
    
  • 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