“Metabarcoding” is a strong tool for biodiversity monitoring: team led by CAS Kunming Institute of Zoology

The extraction of ecological, taxonomic and phylogenetic information from bulk samples of arthropods, combining mass trapping of arthropods, mass-PCR amplification of the COI barcode gene, pyrosequencing and bioinformatic analysis (“metabarcoding”) allows for rapid biodiversity assessment and biomonitoring of arthropods

DW Yu et al., Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 3: 613–623 (2012)