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
      
  • MJ3 : Brine channels
    
    • MJ31 : Arctic brine channels
      
    • MJ32 : Baltic brine channels
      
  • MJ4 : 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
    
  • T3 : Coniferous forest
    
    • T31 : Temperate mountain Picea forest
      
    • T32 : Temperate mountain Abies forest
      
    • T33 : Mediterranean mountain Abies forest
      
    • T34 : Temperate subalpine Larix, Pinus cembra and Pinus uncinata forest
      
    • T35 : Temperate continental Pinus sylvestris forest
      
    • T36 : Temperate and submediterranean montane Pinus sylvestris-Pinus nigra forest
      
      • T361 : Southeastern European Pinus sylvestris forests
        
      • T362 : Po terrace Pinus sylvestris forests
        
      • T363 : Ponto-Caucasian Pinus sylvestris forests
        
      • T364 : Supra-Mediterranean Pinus sylvestris forests
        
      • T365 : Alpino-Apennine Pinus nigra forests
        
      • T366 : Western Balkanic Pinus nigra forests
        
      • T367 : Pinus pallasiana and Pinus banatica forests
        
      • T368 : Pinus sylvestris forest on chalk in the steppe zone
        
      • T369 : Pinus nigra reforestation
        
    • T37 : Mediterranean montane Pinus sylvestris-Pinus nigra forest
      
    • T38 : Mediterranean montane Cedrus forest
      
    • T39 : Mediterranean and Balkan subalpine Pinus heldreichii-Pinus peuce forest
      
    • T3A : Mediterranean lowland to submontane Pinus forest
      
    • T3B : Pinus canariensis forest
      
    • T3C : Taxus baccata forest
      
    • T3D : Mediterranean Cupressaceae forest
      
      • T3D1 : Western Palaearctic Cupressus forests
        
      • T3D2 : Tetraclinis articulata forests
        
      • T3D3 : Hyrcanian Platycladus orientalis (Thuja orientalis) forests
        
      • T3D4 : Juniperus oxycedrus forests
        
      • T3D5 : Juniperus phoenicea forests
        
      • T3D6 : Spanish Juniperus thurifera forests
        
      • T3D7 : Greek Juniperus excelsa forests
        
      • T3D8 : Juniperus foetidissima forests
        
      • T3D9 : Juniperus drupacea forests
        
    • T3E : Macaronesian Juniperus forest
      
    • T3F : Dark taiga
      
    • T3G : Pinus sylvestris light taiga
      
    • T3H : Larix light taiga
      
    • T3J : Pinus and Larix mire forest
      
    • T3K : Picea mire forest
      
    • T3L : Coniferous self sown forest of non site-native trees
      
    • T3M : Coniferous plantation of non site-native trees
      
    • T3N : Coniferous plantation of site-native trees
      
  • T4 : Lines of trees, small anthropogenic forests, recently felled forest, early-stage forest and coppice
    
    • T41 : Early-stage natural and semi-natural forest and regrowth
      
    • T42 : Coppice and early stage plantations
      
    • T43 : Recently felled areas
      
• U : Inland habitats with no or little soil and mostly with sparse vegetation
  
• V : Vegetated man-made habitats
  
  • V1 : Arable land and market gardens
    
    • V11 : Intensive unmixed crops
      
    • V12 : Mixed crops of market gardens and horticulture
      
    • V13 : Arable land with unmixed crops grown by low-intensity agricultural methods
      
    • V14 : Inundated or inundatable croplands, including rice fields
      
    • V15 : Bare tilled, fallow or recently abandoned arable land
      
  • V2 : Cultivated areas of gardens and parks
    
  • V3 : Artificial grasslands and herb dominated habitats
    
  • V4 : Hedgerows
    
  • V5 : Shrub plantations
    
  • V6 : Tree dominated man-made habitats