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
  
• N : Coastal habitats
  
• Q : Wetlands
  
  • Q1 : Raised and blanket bogs
    
    • Q11 : Raised bog
      
      • Q111 : Active, relatively undamaged raised bogs
        
        • Q1111 : Raised bog hummocks, ridges and lawns
          
          • Q11111 : Colourful Sphagnum hummocks (bulten)
            
          • Q11112 : Bog cottonsedge-Sphagnum lawns and green hummock bases
            
          • Q11113 : Dwarf shrub hummocks
            
          • Q11114 : Bog deergrass communities
            
          • Q11115 : Bog Erica-Sphagnum communities
            
          • Q11116 : Raised bog species-poor cottonsedge communities
            
        • Q1112 : Raised bog hollows (schlenken)
          
        • Q1113 : Raised bog seeps and soaks
          
        • Q1114 : Boreoalpine dwarf-shrub hummocks on raised bogs
          
      • Q112 : Damaged, inactive bogs
        
      • Q113 : Condensation mires
        
      • Q114 : Myrica gale scrub on raised bogs
        
      • Q115 : Wet bare peat and peat haggs on raised bogs
        
    • Q12 : Blanket bog
      
      • Q121 : Hyperoceanic low-altitude blanket bogs, typically with dominant Trichophorum
        
      • Q122 : Montane blanket bogs, Calluna and Eriophorum vaginatum often dominant
        
      • Q123 : Boreo-Atlantic blanket bogs
        
      • Q124 : Wet bare peat and peat haggs on blanket bogs
        
    • Q13 : Ombrotrophic percolation mire
      
  • Q2 : Valley mires, poor fens and transition mires
    
  • Q3 : Palsa mires
    
  • Q4 : Base-rich fens and calcareous spring mires
    
  • Q5 : Helophyte beds
    
    • Q51 : Tall-helophyte bed
      
    • Q52 : Small-helophyte bed
      
    • Q53 : Tall-sedge bed
      
    • Q54 : Inland saline or brackish helophyte bed
      
  • 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
  
• U : Inland habitats with no or little soil and mostly with sparse vegetation
  
• V : Vegetated man-made habitats