A validated workflow for rapid taxonomic assignment and monitoring of a national fauna of bees (Apiformes) using high throughput DNA barcoding

This work was funded by the UK Department of Environment, Forestry and Rural Affairs (Defra) of the UK (contract PH0521), with in‐kind contributions from the NHMUK, and a fellowship of the NERC Science Solutions for a Changing Planet Doctoral Training Programme at Imperial College (to HN). The bioinformatics pipelines were developed under the iBioGen project funded by the European Commission. The NPPMF pilot pan trapping study was jointly funded by Defra and Scottish Government under project WC1101.