“…Most molecular methods used for these purposes can be categorized under the following two main approaches: (a) Targeted methods, which use species‐specific primers and techniques such as quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR; e.g., Sigsgaard, Carl, Møller, & Thomsen, ; Smith, Wood, Mountfort, & Cary, ; Wood, Zaiko, Richter, Inglis, & Pochon, ); and (b) Community‐wide characterization methods, which use universal primers that enable entire communities or groups of organisms to be described, e.g., metabarcoding (Thomsen et al, ; Wood et al, ; Hänfling et al, ; Bista et al, ). While both targeted and community‐wide characterization methods have now been applied widely in a range of habitats (Dowle, Pochon, Banks, Shearer, & Wood, ; Evans et al, ; Laroche et al, ), few studies have directly compared the sensitivity of techniques (Pochon, Bott, Smith, & Wood, ). This is particularly important when these methods are applied with the aim of detecting rare or invasive species (Cristescu & Hebert, ; Goldberg et al, ).…”