Habitats

AWB Habitats Index –

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A

Abiotic
African savanna changes
Agrarian 
Agricultural land
Alpine Tundra
Aquatic vegetation, Aquatic vegetation  
Arable fields
Arable land
Arctic
Arctic cordillera
Arctic ocean
Arctic sea ice
Artificial reef
Asian deserts
Atolls

B

Barrier islands
Bay
Beaches
Beaches & Strandlines
Beech woodlands
Biogenic reefs
Biogeography
Biome
Biotic
Blanket Bog
Bog
Boggy moorland
Bogland
Borders of open wetlands
Boreal Forest - Taiga
Brackish Marshes
Broadleaf woodland
Broadleaved evergreen woodland
Brownfield
Brambles
Bushes

C

Calaminarian grassland
Canal
Canopy
Cape
Cattle
Cattle yards
Cays
Cereal fields
Chalk rivers
Clearings
Cliffs
Coast
Coastal
Coastal and floodplain grazing marsh
Coastal areas
Coastal dunes
Coastal habitats
Coastal lagoons
Coastal marshes
Coastal waters, Coastal waters
Coastal wetlands
Coastline
Conifer
Coniferous forest
Coniferous plantation
Coniferous woodland
Continental margin
Continental rise
Continental shelf
Continental slope
Coppiced woodland
Copse, Copse
Coral atoll
Coral island
Coral reef
Country
Countryside
Creeks, Creeks
Cultivated land
Cultivation - tillage

D

Deciduous
Deciduous forest
Deciduous woodland
Deep-water corals
Delta
Dense forest
Dense vegetation
Desert
Ditch
Dunes

E

Ecology
Ecoregion
Ecosystem
Ecozone
Emergent vegetation
Enodorheic Basin
Environment
Estuarine Wetlands
Estuary
Exorheic Lake

F

Farmland, farmland
Farmland edges
Farmland stubbles
Fen, Fenland
Field
Field edges
Firth
Floating vegetation
Flooded fields
Floodplain
Foliage
Foothills
Foreland
Forest - all kinds intro
Forest edges
Forestry plantations
Freshwater
Freshwater marshes
Freshwater swamp forests
Feshwater swamps

G

Garden
Garden pond
Glades
Glen
Grasses
Grassland
Grasslands
Gravel Pit
Gravel Plains - images
Ground
Grove
Groynes
Gulf
Gull roosts

H

Habitat
Hamlet
Harbour
Headland
Headlands and Bays
Heath
Heathland
Heathland and moorland
Hedge or Hedgerow
Hedgerow
Highland
Hills
Hills and Valleys
Hypersaline Lake

I

Inland Wetlands
Intertidal Zone
Irrigation
Island

J

Jebel - Arabic for hill or mountain
Jetties

K

Kelp
Kelp beds and forests
Kelp forest
Keys
Khor - arabic for creek

L

Lagoons - coastal and atoll
Lake
Lakes
Lakes - Open and Closed
Life Zone
Limestone pavement
Littoral Zone
Livestock
Loch
Lowland
Lowland calcareous grassland
Lowland dry acid grassland
Lowland fen
Lowland heath
Lowland meadow and pasture

M

Machair
Mangrove
Mangrove forest/swamp
Mangroves, Mangroves video
Marine
Marine habitats
Maritime cliff
Marsh
Marshy grasslands
Meadows - all kinds
Mere
Mesopotamian marshlands
Migration watchpoints
Mire
Mixed woodland
Moor
Moorland, Moorland
Mountain
Mud
Muddy beaches
Muddy pools
Muddy shores
Mud Flats
Mussel beds, Mussel beds

N

Nearctic
Nearshore zone
Neritic zone
Northern hay meadow

O

Oak woodlands
Oasis
Ocean
Ocean banks
Ocean Habitats
Oceanic zone
Offshore islands
Open country, Open countryside
Open habitats
Open seas
Open spaces
Orchard
Orchards

P

Palm groves
Park, Parkland
Pastures
Pelagic
Peninsula
Permafrost
Piers
Pine forests
Pine plantations
Pinewoods
Plain
Plantations
Plateau
Playing fields
Ploughed fields
Polar landscapes
Polar region
Pond
Ponds
Promontory
Purple moor-grass and rush pasture

Q

Quarry

R

Raised bog
Reclaimed land
Reedbed, Reedbeds
Reef
Reservoir
Riparian Zone
River, Rivers
Riverbank
Road Verge
Rocky habitat
Rocky reefs
Rocky shores
Rubbish tip
Rural areas
Rushes

S

Sabkha
Sahel
Salt flat
Salt Lake
Salt Lakes-Tunisia
Salt Marsh
Salt Marsh & Mudflats
Sand and gravel
Sand dunes, Sand-dunes
Sand Quarry
Sandy beaches, Sandy shores
Savanna
Scrub
Sea
Sea coasts
Seagrass, Seagrass
Seagrass meadows
Seashore
Seaside piers
Seawalls
Seawatching places
Seaweeds
Secondary forest/growth
Sedges
Sedimentary shores
Semi-desert
Sewage works
Shingle bars
Shingle beaches
Shingle riverbanks
Shore
Shoreline
Shrub - bush
Shrublands
Soda Lake
Sparse vegetation
Spits
Steppe
Stony beaches
Straits
Strandlines
Stream
Streambanks
Stream - images
Stubble fields
Sub Alpine Ecosystem
Subarctic zone
Sublittoral zone
Subtropical zone
Sudanian Savannah
Supralittoral zone
Swamp

T

Taiga - Boreal Forest
Terrestrial biomes
Temperate zones
Thicket
Thistles
Tidal flats
Tidal marshes
Tilled Land
Timberline
Tombolo
Town
Towns and gardens
Tree
Treeline
Tropics
Tundra

U

Underbrush
Undergrowth
Undergrowth - images
Understorey
Upland acid grassland and rush pasture
Upland and Lowland
Upland and moorland
Upland calcareous grassland
Upland rivers
Upland spring, flush and fen
Urban areas, Urban areas

V

Valley
Veld - grass and low scrublands in Africa
Village

W

Wadi
Watercourse
Watercress beds
Water meadows
Waterside vegetation
Waterway
Wet grasslands
Wetland Wetlands
Wetland margins
Wetland Types
Wet meadows
Wet Savannas
Wet woodland
Willow thickets
Winter stubbles
Wooded areas
Wooded hillsides
Woodland, Woodland
Woodland edges
Woodland - Images
Woods

X

Xeric Shrublands

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Z

Zoogeographic Regions Confirmed
Zoogeographic Regions - Images
Zoogeography