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
    
    • MJ11 : Arctic sea ice
      
      • MJ111 : Seasonal Arctic pack-ice
        
      • MJ112 : Permanent Arctic pack-ice
        
      • MJ113 : Arctic Ice floes
        
    • MJ12 : Baltic sea ice
      
  • MJ2 : Freshwater ice
    
  • 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
  
  • N1 : Coastal dunes and sandy shores
    
  • N2 : Coastal shingle
    
  • N3 : Rock cliffs, ledges and shores, including the supralittoral
    
• Q : Wetlands
  
  • Q1 : Raised and blanket bogs
    
  • Q2 : Valley mires, poor fens and transition mires
    
  • Q3 : Palsa mires
    
  • Q4 : Base-rich fens and calcareous spring mires
    
  • Q5 : Helophyte beds
    
  • Q6 : Periodically exposed shores
    
• 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
    
    • U21 : Boreal and arctic siliceous scree and block field
      
    • U22 : Temperate high-mountain siliceous scree
      
    • U23 : Temperate, lowland to montane siliceous scree
      
      • U231 : Pyreneo-Alpine thermo-siliceous screes
        
      • U232 : Oro-Cantabrian siliceous screes
        
      • U233 : Ibero-Pyrenean acidophile fern screes
        
      • U234 : Carpetano-Iberian siliceous screes
        
      • U235 : Nevadan siliceous screes
        
    • U24 : Mediterranean siliceous scree
      
    • U25 : Boreal and arctic base-rich scree and block field
      
    • U26 : Temperate high-mountain base-rich scree and moraine
      
      • U261 : Alpine calcschist screes
        
      • U262 : Thlaspi rotundifolium screes
        
      • U263 : Fine calcareous screes
        
      • U264 : Carpathian calcareous screes
        
      • U265 : Rhodopide calcareous screes
        
    • 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
    
  • 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