sera mis en ligne en texte intégral en septembre 2019International audienceGuano accumulated in caves by bats or birds contains a stratigraphic record of the environment which may supplement or supply conventionnal terrestrial sedimentary records like lacustrine/palustrine deposits or peat. Thus, guano study allows the understanding of recent or past climate and environment changes, which ability has expanded recently with the development of more sophisticated analytical tools, based on proxies that are indirect measures of past climates or environments preserved in natural archives. In New Caledonia, diurnal cave swiftlet Collocalia spodiopygia and nocturnal Chiroptera Micropterus robustior, both insectivores, share very often the same cav...