“…Fuller et al, 2008;Moerman et al, 2014;Riechelmann et al, 2011;Treble et al, 2013;Duan et al, 2016), although the complexity of the response of the speleothem δ 18 O signal to climate is also recognised owing to karst hydrological pathways (Baker and Brunsdon, 2003;, recharge thresholds (Pape et al, 2010;Markowska et al, 2015), and in-cave effects, including disequilibrium during degassing (due to evaporation) and ventilation effects (e.g. Pape et al, 2010;Feng et al, 2012;Deininger et al, 2012;Cuthbert et al, 2014a, b;Riechelmann et al, 2013;Dreybrodt and Deininger, 2014;Rau et al, 2015).…”