Table 1.

Average ± standard error of the number of orders and taxa detected per sample

	Method	Order	Taxa
Plant	Morphological	1.05 ± 0.05	1.12 ± 0.04
	18S	2.14 ± 0.11	3.03 ± 0.17
	trnL	3.70 ± 0.18	4.76 ± 0.31
	Multi‐marker	4.09 ± 0.19	5.30 ± 0.31
Animal	Morphological	1.80 ± 0.10	4.09 ± 0.20
	18S	1.91 ± 0.12	2.38 ± 0.16
	IN16STK	2.93 ± 0.13	5.07 ± 0.27
	ZBJ	2.58 ± 0.12	4.00 ± 0.20
	Multi‐marker	4.56 ± 0.17	7.92 ± 0.32

The number of taxa combines the number of species identified and the number of MOTUs identified at higher taxonomic levels.