
%0 Journal Article
%A Calver, Mike 
%T Archives and conservation biology.
%J Pacific Conservation Biology
%D 2012/12/10
%V 18
%N 4
%P 223-224
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/PCV18N4_EDI
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/PCV18N4_EDI 
%X IN a previous editorial in Pacific Conservation Biology, (PCB 2012, 18(2), p.68), I referred to recent papers in the insect conservation literature that made use of decades-old data sets to establish longterm changes in the species richness and abundance of insect groups in grasslands in eastern Germany. This is a signficant example of the lasting value of descriptive data sets. In this issue&#x2019;s guest editorial, Sebastian Schuch, one of the authors of the recent papers, describes how he came to find the original studies and their value in documenting long-term change in insect communities. 
