“…An increasing number of studies are using metabarcoding to characterize species diversity, or to detect rare or invasive species in environmental samples (Aylagas, Borja, Irigoien, & Rodríguez‐Ezpeleta, ; Brown, Chain, Zhan, MacIsaac, & Cristescu, ; de Vargas et al, ; Pochon, Zaiko, Fletcher, Laroche, & Wood, ; Zaiko et al, ). Unlike targeted approaches, metabarcoding enables many species to be identified simultaneously, and dependent on the approaches used, the taxa may represent multiple trophic levels (Keeley, Wood, & Pochon, ).…”