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
    
    • MHA1 : Arctic fronts in full salinity water column
      
    • MHA2 : Atlantic fronts in full salinity water column
      
    • MHA3 : Baltic fronts in full salinity water column
      
    • MHA4 : Black Sea fronts in full salinity water column
      
    • MHA5 : Mediterranean fronts in full salinity water column
      
• MJ : Ice-associated marine habitats
  
• N : Coastal habitats
  
• Q : Wetlands
  
• R : Grasslands and lands dominated by forbs, mosses or lichens
  
• S : Heathland, scrub and tundra
  
• T : Forest and other wooded land
  
  • T1 : Deciduous broadleaved forest
    
    • T11 : Temperate Salix and Populus riparian forest
      
    • T12 : Alnus glutinosa-Alnus incana forest on riparian and mineral soils
      
    • T13 : Temperate hardwood riparian forest
      
      • T131 : Mixed Quercus - Ulmus - Fraxinus forest of great rivers
        
    • T14 : Mediterranean and Macaronesian riparian forest
      
    • T15 : Broadleaved swamp forest on non-acid peat
      
    • T16 : Broadleaved mire forest on acid peat
      
    • T17 : Fagus forest on non-acid soils
      
    • T18 : Fagus forest on acid soils
      
    • T19 : Temperate and submediterranean thermophilous deciduous forest
      
      • T191 : Western Quercus pubescens forests and related communities
        
      • T192 : Cyrno-Sardinian Quercus pubescens forests
        
      • T193 : Eastern Quercus pubescens forests
        
        • T1931 : Northern Italic Quercus pubescens forests
          
        • T1932 : Italo-Sicilian Quercus pubescens forests
          
        • T1933 : Hellenic Quercus pubescens forests
          
        • T1934 : Aegean Quercus anatolica forests
          
        • T1935 : Aegean Quercus brachyphylla forests
          
        • T1936 : Dalmatian white oak forests
          
        • T1937 : Eastern sub-Mediterranean white oak forests
          
        • T1938 : Euxinian white oak forests
          
      • T194 : Italo-Illyrian Ostrya carpinifolia sub-thermophilous Quercus forests
        
      • T195 : Southeastern sub-thermophilous Quercus forests
        
      • T196 : Balkano-Anatolian thermophilous Quercus forests
        
      • T197 : Afro-Iberian thermophilous Quercus forests
        
      • T198 : Quercus trojana forest
        
      • T199 : Steppe Quercus forests
        
      • T19A : Quercus pyrenaica forest
        
      • T19B : Mixed thermophilous forest
        
      • T19C : Castanea sativa forest
        
    • T1A : Mediterranean thermophilous deciduous forest
      
    • T1B : Acidophilous Quercus forest
      
    • T1C : Temperate and boreal mountain Betula and Populus tremula forest on mineral soils
      
    • T1D : Southern European mountain Betula and Populus tremula forest on mineral soils
      
      • T1D1 : Iberian acidophilous birch forests
        
      • T1D2 : Insubrian acidophilous birch forests
        
      • T1D3 : Pyrenean birch forests
        
      • T1D4 : Apennine birch forests
        
      • T1D5 : Sub-Mediterranean Populus tremula stands
        
      • T1D6 : Corsican Betula forests
        
      • T1D7 : Montane Betula celtiberica forests
        
        • T1D71 : Cantabrian Betula celtiberica forests
          
        • T1D72 : Western Betula celtiberica forests
          
        • T1D73 : Sorian and Guadarraman Betula celtiberica forests
          
      • T1D8 : Mount Etna Betula stands
        
    • T1E : Carpinus and Quercus mesic deciduous forest
      
    • T1F : Ravine forest
      
    • T1G : Alnus cordata forest
      
    • T1H : Broadleaved deciduous plantation of non site-native trees
      
    • T1J : Deciduous self sown forest of non site-native trees
      
    • T1K : Broadleaved deciduous plantation of site-native trees
      
  • 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