Date: October 26, 2017
Source: University of South Florida (USF Health)
People have long known that bat
guano -- the polite term for what the flying mammals leave on the floors of
caves where they live worldwide -- is a valuable source of fuel and fertilizer,
but now newly published research from University of South Florida geoscientists
show that the refuse is also a reliable record of climate change.
In a new paper published this
week in the research journal Scientific Reports, USF geochemistry
Professor Bogdan Onac and PhD student Daniel Cleary report that isotopes found
in bat guano over the last 1,200 years can provide scientists with information
on how the climate was and is changing.
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