Simple

Name
Ecosystem types feature catalogue
Scope
Ecosystem types based on the EUNIS habitat classification levels 1 and 2
Version
1.0
Point of contact
  - European Environment Agency ( )

Kongens Nytorv 6 , Copenhagen , K , 1050 , Denmark

Property description

Property name
Ecosystem types of Europe based on EUNIS level 1 and 2
Definition
First and second levels of EUNIS habitat type classification.
Abstract
false

Elements

Member name
VALUE

Range

Lower cardinality
1
Codelist
Code Label Definition
1 A Marine habitats
2 B Coastal habitats
3 C Inland surface waters.
4 D Mires, bogs and fens
5 E Grasslands and land dominated by forbs, mosses or lichens
6 F Heathland, scrub and tundra
7 G Woodland, forest and other wooded land
8 H Inland unvegetated or sparsely vegetated habitats
9 I Regularly or recently cultivated, hortocultural and domestic habitats
10 J Constructed, industrial and other artificial habitats
11 B1 Coastal dunes and sandy shores
12 B2 Coastal shingle
13 B3 Rock cliffs, ledges and shores, including the supralittoral
14 C1 Surface standing waters
15 C2 Surface running waterss
16 C3 Littoral zone of inland surface waterbodies
17 D1 Raised and blanket bogs
18 D2 Valley mires, poor fens and transition mires
19 D3 Aapa, palsa and polygon mires
20 D4 Base-rich fens and calcareous spring mires
21 D5 Sedge and reedbeds, normally without free-standing water
22 D6 Inland saline and brackish marshes and reedbeds
23 E1 Dry grasslands
24 E2 Mesic grasslands
25 E3 Seasonally wet and wet grasslands
26 E4 Alpine and subalpine grasslands
28 E6 Inland salt steppes
29 E7 Sparsely wooded grasslands
30 F1 Tundra
31 F2 Arctic, alpine and subalpine scrub
32 F3 Temperate and mediterranean-montane scrub
33 F4 Temperate shrub heathland
34 F5 Maquis, arborescent matorral and thermo-Mediterranean brushes
35 F6 Garrigue
36 F7 Spiny Mediterranean heaths (phrygana, hedgehog-heaths and related coastal cliff vegetation)
37 F8 Thermo-Atlantic xerophytic scrub
38 F9 Riverine and fen scrubs
40 FB Shrub plantations
41 G1 Broadleaved deciduous woodland
42 G2 Broadleaved evergreen woodland
43 G3 Coniferous woodland
44 G4 Mixed deciduous and coniferous woodland
45 G5 Lines of trees, small anthropogenic woodlands, recently felled woodland, early-stage woodland and coppice
47 H2 Screes
48 H3 Inland cliffs, rock pavements and outcrops
49 H4 Snow or ice-dominated habitats
50 H5 Miscellaneous inland habitats with very sparse or no vegeation
52 I1 Arable land and market gardens
53 I2 Cultivated areas of gardens and parks
54 J1 Buildings of cities, towns and villages
55 J2 Low density buildings
56 J3 Extractive industrial sites
57 J4 Transport networks and other constructed hard-surfaced areas
58 J5 Highly artificial man-made waters and associated structures
59 J6 Waste deposits
101 A1 Littoral rock and other hard substrata
102 A2 Littoral sediment
103 A3 Infralittoral rock and other hard substrata
104 A4 Circalittoral rock and other hard substrata
105 A5 Sublittoral sediment
106 A6 Deep-sea bed
109 X1 Estuaries
110 X2_3 Coastal lagoons
112 A12 Littoral rock or sediment
128 A128 Littoral rock or sediment and sea ice
134 A34 Infralittoral and circalittoral rock and other hard substrata
138 A348 Infralittoral and circalittoral rock and other hard substrata and sea ice
181 A18 Littoral rock and other hard substrata and sea ice
182 A28 Littoral sediment and sea ice
185 A58 Sublittoral sediment and sea ice
186 A68 Deep-sea bed and sea ice
250 250 Unclassified
Name
INTEGER