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
      
      • MJ211 : Large tabular iceberg
        
      • MJ212 : Medium iceberg
        
      • MJ213 : Small iceberg
        
      • MJ214 : Bergy bit
        
      • MJ215 : Growler
        
  • MJ3 : Brine channels
    
    • MJ31 : Arctic brine channels
      
    • MJ32 : Baltic brine channels
      
  • MJ4 : Under-ice habitat
    
    • MJ41 : Arctic under-ice habitat
      
    • MJ42 : Baltic under-ice habitat
      
• N : Coastal habitats
  
• 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
    
    • T21 : Mediterranean evergreen Quercus forest
      
      • T211 : Quercus suber forest
        
        • T2111 : Tyrrhenian Quercus suber forests
          
        • T2112 : Southwestern Iberian Quercus suber forests
          
        • T2113 : Northwestern Iberian Quercus suber forest
          
        • T2114 : Aquitanian Quercus suber forest
          
      • T212 : Quercus ilex and Q. rotundifolia forest
        
        • T2121 : Meso-Mediterranean Quercus ilex forests
          
        • T2122 : Supra-Mediterranean Quercus ilex forests
          
        • T2123 : Aquitanian Quercus ilex forest
          
        • T2124 : Spanish Quercus rotundifolia forest
          
      • T213 : Quercus coccifera and Quercus alnifolia forest
        
    • T22 : Mainland laurophyllous forest
      
      • T221 : Mediterraneo-Atlantic Laurus - Quercus forest
        
      • T222 : Ponto-Hyrcanian sclerophyllous forests
        
    • T23 : Macaronesian laurophyllous forest
      
    • T24 : Olea europaea-Ceratonia siliqua forest
      
    • T25 : Phoenix theophrasti vegetation
      
    • T26 : Phoenix canariensis vegetation
      
    • T27 : Ilex aquifolium forest
      
    • T28 : Macaronesian heathy forest
      
    • T29 : Broadleaved evergreen plantation of non site-native trees
      
    • T2A : Broadleaved evergreen plantation of site-native trees
      
  • 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