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
  
  • 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
    
• Q : Wetlands
  
  • Q1 : Raised and blanket bogs
    
  • Q2 : Valley mires, poor fens and transition mires
    
    • Q21 : Oceanic valley mire
      
    • Q22 : Poor fen
      
    • Q23 : Relict mire of Mediterranean mountains
      
    • Q24 : Intermediate fen and soft-water spring mire
      
    • Q25 : Non-calcareous quaking mire
      
      • Q251 : Carex lasiocarpa swards
        
      • Q252 : Carex diandra quaking mires
        
      • Q253 : Carex rostrata quaking mires
        
      • Q254 : Carex limosa swards
        
      • Q255 : Carex chordorrhiza swards
        
      • Q256 : Carex heleonastes swards
        
      • Q257 : Rhynchospora alba quaking bogs
        
      • Q258 : Sphagnum and Eriophorum rafts
        
      • Q259 : Menyanthes trifoliata and Potentilla palustris rafts
        
      • Q25A : Calla palustris mires
        
      • Q25B : Brown moss carpets
        
      • Q25C : Eriophorum vaginatum quaking bogs
        
      • Q25D : Molinia caerulea quaking bogs
        
      • Q25E : Calamagrostis stricta quaking bogs
        
      • Q25F : Scirpus hudsonianus (Trichophorum alpinum) quaking bogs
        
      • Q25G : Iberian quaking bogs
        
      • Q25H : Wet, open, acid peat and sand, with Rhynchospora alba and Drosera
        
      • Q25J : Balkanic quaking bogs
        
  • Q3 : Palsa mires
    
  • Q4 : Base-rich fens and calcareous spring mires
    
    • Q41 : Alkaline, calcareous, carbonate-rich small-sedge spring fen
      
      • Q411 : Schoenus ferrugineus fens
        
      • Q412 : Subcontinental Carex davalliana fens
        
        • Q4121 : Peri-Alpine Davall sedge fens
          
        • Q4122 : Deergrass Davall sedge fens
          
        • Q4123 : Bohemio-Pannonic Davall sedge fens
          
        • Q4124 : Carpathian Davall sedge fens
          
        • Q4125 : Northern Davall sedge fens
          
        • Q4126 : Dinaric carnation-tawny sedge fens
          
      • Q413 : Pyrenean Carex davalliana fens
        
      • Q414 : Eleocharis quinqueflora fens
        
      • Q415 : Middle European Blysmus compressus fens
        
      • Q416 : Hard water spring mires
        
    • Q42 : Extremely rich moss-sedge fen
      
    • Q43 : Tall-sedge base-rich fen
      
    • Q44 : Calcareous quaking mire
      
    • Q45 : Arctic-alpine rich fen
      
    • Q46 : Carpathian travertine fen with halophytes
      
  • 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
  
• U : Inland habitats with no or little soil and mostly with sparse vegetation
  
• V : Vegetated man-made habitats