Selected Publications

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Kaushal, N.*, Lechleitner, F.A.*, Wilhelm, M., Azennoud, K., Bühler, J.C., Braun, K., Ait   Brahim, Y., Baker, A., Burstyn, Y., Comas-Bru, L., Fohlmeister, J., Goldsmith, Y., Harrison, S.P., Hatvani, I.G., Rehfeld, K., Ritzau, M., Skiba, V., Stoll, H., Szűcs, J.G., Tanos, P., Endres, L. (2024): SISALv3: a global speleothem stable isotope and trace element database. Earth System Science Data, 16, 4, 1933-1963, DOI: 10.5194/essd-16-1933-2024. *equal contribution

Xue, G., Cai, Y., Cheng, P., Lechleitner, F.A., Zhang, H., Zhen, Y., Wei, Y., Huang, S., Yang, L., Cheng, X., Lu, Y., Zhou, J., Ma, L., Cheng, H., Edwards, L.R. (2023): The climate Control of soil organic carbon dynamics inferred from speleothem radiocarbon ages. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, 3, e2022GL101875, DOI: 10.1029/2022GL101875.

Lechleitner, F.A., Day, C.C., Kost, O., Wilhelm, M., Haghipour, N., Henderson, G.M., Stoll, H.M. (2021): Stalagmite carbon isotopes suggest deglacial increase in soil respiration in western Europe driven by temperature change. Climate of the Past (invited contribution for EGU Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award in the CL division), 17, 1903-1918, DOI: 10.5194/cp-17-1903-2021.

Baldini, J.U.L., Lechleitner, F.A., Breitenbach, S.F.M., van Hunen, J., Baldini, L.M., Wynn, P.M., Jamieson, R.A., Ridley, H.E., Baker, A.J., Walczak, I.W., Fohlmeister, J. (2021): Detecting and quantifying palaeoseasonality in stalagmites using geochemical and modelling approaches. Quaternary Science Reviews (Invited review), 254, DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106784.

Fohlmeister, J., Voarintsoa, N.R., Lechleitner, F.A., Boyd, M., Brandstätter, S., Jacobson, M.J., Oster, J. (2020): Global controls on stable carbon isotope composition of speleothems. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 279, 67-87, DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2020.03.042.

Lechleitner, F.A., Mason, A., Breitenbach, S.F.M., Vaks, A., Haghipour, N., Henderson, G.M. (2020): Evaluating the potential of speleothems for high-resolution reconstruction of permafrost carbon cycle dynamics. Quaternary Geochronology, 56, DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2019.101037.

Magiera, M., Lechleitner, F.A., Erhardt, A.M., Hartland, A., Kwiecien, O., Cheng, H., Bradbury, H., Turchyn, A.V., Riechelmann, S., Edwards, L., Breitenbach, S.F.M. (2019): Local and regional Indian Summer Monsoon precipitation dynamics during Termination II and the Last Interglacial. Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 12454-12463, DOI: 10.1029/2019GL083721.

Lechleitner, F.A., Lang, S.Q., Haghipour, N., McIntyre, C., Prufer, K.M.P., Baldini, J.U.L., Eglinton, T.I. (2019): Towards organic carbon isotope records from stalagmites: coupled δ13C and 14C analysis using wet chemical oxidation. Radiocarbon, 61(3), 749-764, DOI: 10.1017/RDC.2019.35.

Fohlmeister, J., Lechleitner, F.A. (2019): STAlagmite dating by radiocarbon (star): A software tool for reliable and fast age depth modelling, Quaternary Geochronology, 51, 120-129, DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2019.02.008.

Lechleitner, F.A., Amirnezhad-Mozhdehi, S., Columbu, A., Comas-Bru, L., Labuhn, I., Pérez-Mejìas, C., Rehfeld, K. (2018): The potential of speleothems from Western Europe as recorders of regional climate: A critical assessment of the SISAL database, Quaternary, 1(3), 30, DOI: 10.3390/quat1030030.

Lechleitner, F.A., Dittmar, T., Baldini, J.U.L., Prufer, K.M.P., Eglinton, T.I. (2017): Molecular signatures of dissolved organic matter in a tropical karst system. Organic Geochemistry, 113, 141-149, DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2017.07.015.

Lechleitner, F.A., Breitenbach, S.F.M., Cheng, H., Plessen, B., Rehfeld, K., Goswami, B., Marwan, N., Eroglu, D., Adkins, J., Haug, G. (2017): Climatic and in-cave influences on δ18O and δ13C in a stalagmite from northeastern India through the last deglaciation. Quaternary Research, 88, 458-471, DOI: 10.1017/qua.2017.72.

Lechleitner, F.A., Breitenbach, S.F.M., Rehfeld, K., Ridley, H.E., Asmerom, Y., Prufer, K.M., Marwan, N., Goswami, B., Kennett, D.J., Aquino, V.V., Polyak, V., Haug, G.H., Eglinton, T.I., Baldini, J.U.L. (2017): Tropical rainfall over the last two millennia: evidence for a low-latitude hydrologic seesaw. Scientific Reports, 7, 45809, DOI: 10.1038/srep45809.

Lechleitner, F.A., Baldini, J.U.L., Breitenbach, S.F.M., Fohlmeister, J., McIntyre, C., Goswami, B., Jamieson, R.A., van der Voort, T.S., Prufer, K., Marwan, N., Culleton, B.J., Kennett, D.J., Asmerom, Y., Polyak, V., Eglinton, T.I. (2016): Hydrological and climatological controls on radiocarbon concentrations in a tropical stalagmite. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 194, 233-252, DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2016.08.039.

Lechleitner, F.A., Fohlmeister, J., McIntyre, C., Baldini, L.M., Jamieson, R.A., Hercman, H., Gasiorowski, M., Pawlak, J., Stefaniak, K., Socha, P., Eglinton, T.I., Baldini, J.U.L. (2016): A novel approach for construction of radiocarbon-based chronologies for speleothems. Quaternary Geochronology, 35, 54-66, DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2016.05.006.

Breitenbach, S.F.M., Lechleitner, F.A., Meyer, H., Diengdoh, G., Mattey, D., Marwan, N. (2015): Cave ventilation and rainfall signals in dripwater in a monsoonal setting – a monitoring study from NE India. Chemical Geology, 402, 111-124, DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2015.03.011.

Ridley, H.E., Asmerom, Y., Baldini, J.U.L., Breitenbach, S.F.M., Aquino, V.V., Prufer, K.M., Culleton, B.J., Polyak, V., Lechleitner, F.A., Kennett, D.J., Zhang, M., Marwan, N., Macpherson, C.G., Baldini, L.M., Xiao, T., Peterkin, J., Awe, J., Haug, G.H. (2015): Aerosol forcing of the position of the intertropical convergence zone since AD 1550. Nature Geoscience, 8, 195-200, DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2353.