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
    
    • MH11 : Arctic neuston
      
    • MH12 : Atlantic neuston
      
    • MH13 : Baltic neuston
      
    • MH14 : Black Sea neuston
      
    • MH15 : Mediterranean 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
    
    • MH41 : Arctic partially mixed water column with reduced salinity and medium or long residence time
      
    • MH42 : Atlantic partially mixed water column with reduced salinity and medium or long residence time
      
    • MH43 : Baltic partially mixed water column with reduced salinity and medium or long residence time
      
    • MH44 : Black Sea partially mixed water column with reduced salinity and medium or long residence time
      
    • MH45 : Mediterranean 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
    
    • MH61 : Arctic vertically stratified water column with reduced salinity
      
    • MH62 : Atlantic vertically stratified water column with reduced salinity
      
    • MH63 : Baltic vertically stratified water column with reduced salinity
      
    • MH64 : Black Sea vertically stratified water column with reduced salinity
      
    • MH65 : Mediterranean 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
    
  • MJ2 : Freshwater ice
    
  • MJ3 : Brine channels
    
  • MJ4 : Under-ice habitat
    
• N : Coastal habitats
  
  • N1 : Coastal dunes and sandy shores
    
  • N2 : Coastal shingle
    
    • N21 : Atlantic, Baltic and Arctic coastal shingle beach
      
      • N211 : Boreo-arctic gravel beach annual communities
        
      • N212 : Atlantic and Baltic shingle beach drift lines
        
      • N213 : Biocenosis of slowly drying wracks on Atlantic, Baltic and Arctic coastal shingle beaches
        
      • N214 : Baltic Crambe maritima communities
        
      • N215 : Channel Crambe maritima communities
        
      • N216 : Atlantic Crambe maritima communities
        
      • N217 : Gravelly beach and shingle pioneer communities
        
      • N218 : Euro-Siberian gravel bank grasslands
        
    • N22 : Mediterranean and Black Sea coastal shingle beach
      
  • N3 : Rock cliffs, ledges and shores, including the supralittoral
    
• 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
    
  • 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
  
  • U1 : Terrestrial underground caves, cave systems, passages and waterbodies
    
  • U2 : Screes
    
  • U3 : Inland cliffs, rock pavements and outcrops
    
  • U4 : Snow or ice-dominated habitats
    
  • U5 : Miscellaneous inland habitats usually with very sparse or no vegetation
    
  • U6 : Recent volcanic features
    
• V : Vegetated man-made habitats