A 12,000 kyr paleohydroclimate record in the southeastern, U.S.A based on deuterium from bat guano

Tsalickis, Alexandra; Waters, Matthew N.; Campbell, Joshua W.

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A 12,000 kyr paleohydroclimate record in the southeastern, U.S.A based on deuterium from bat guano

Alexandra Tsalickis ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-5643-5551¹,
Matthew N. Waters¹ &
Joshua W. Campbell²

Environmental Earth Sciences volume 81, Article number: 148 (2022) Cite this article

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The southeastern United States endures environmental change from human population increase, climate change, and land-use alterations creating the need to understand baseline conditions and environmental patterns prior to human impacts. While paleoenvironmental data can be reconstructed from a variety of archives (e.g., lake sediments, tree rings, speleothems), some geographic areas contain fewer such records. One archive capable of recording moisture regimes and other paleoenvironmental changes over millennia but has received little attention relative to other climate proxies is bat guano deposits in cave systems. Bat guano deposits are found in many cave environments in the southeastern United States and can be used as an archive of paleoenvironmental data including precipitation, vegetation, and aspects associated with the ecology of bats. Here, we present a 12,000-year record of paleoenvironmental change based on δ²H stable isotopes in a guano core collected from Cave Springs Cave in Alabama, USA. Results suggest distinct shifts in moisture with dryer conditions during the early Holocene/late Pleistocene (12,200–9500 cal year BP) (δ²H values − 86.82 to −-77.70), wetter conditions during the middle Holocene (9300–3900 cal year BP) (δ²H values − 125.74 to − 80.63), roughly coinciding with the Holocene Climatic Optimum event time interval (9000–5000 cal year BP). During the last 4000 years, conditions in the region shifted in the southeastern United States region becoming dryer once again. Climate inferences based on guano δ²H are consistent with the role of atmospheric moisture on regional vegetation changes suggested by previous pollen records obtained from lake sediment cores. This study suggests bat guano δ²H may be a reliable method to provide a long-term paleoclimate record.

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We thank USFWS Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge for granting us permission to Cave Springs Cave and Bill “Gator” Gates for being our guide. We thank the National Speleological Society and Auburn University for providing funding. We also thank Alex Morphew for GIS support.

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Tsalickis, A., Waters, M.N. & Campbell, J.W. A 12,000 kyr paleohydroclimate record in the southeastern, U.S.A based on deuterium from bat guano. Environ Earth Sci 81, 148 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-022-10234-x

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Gray bat
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Isotopes
Holocene climatic optimum
Pleistocene
Pollen