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Overview

Barry G. Lovegrove is affiliated with the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. Their research spans fields related to Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a particular focus on ecology and related subfields such as ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and earth-surface processes.

Their work covers multiple topics including physiological and biochemical adaptations, bat biology and ecology studies, wildlife ecology and conservation, aeolian processes and effects, as well as biocrusts and microbial ecology.

Recent publications demonstrate the scope of their research interests and contributions. These include:

  • Small Tropical Mammals Can Take the Heat: High Upper Limits of Thermoneutrality in a Bornean Treeshrew, 2020, Physiological and Biochemical Zoology
  • Fog basking by Namib Desert weevils, 2020, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Barry G. Lovegrove include:

  • Anna Thonis
  • Ruben Michael Ceballos
  • Andrew Alek Tuen
  • Danielle L. Levesque

Their publications are also associated with leading venues such as Physiological and Biochemical Zoology and Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. These journals align closely with their specializations in physiological ecology and environmental science.

Best Publications

  • The Zoogeography of Mammalian Basal Metabolic Rate.

    Barry G. Lovegrove

  • The influence of climate on the basal metabolic rate of small mammals: a slow-fast metabolic continuum

    B. G. Lovegrove

  • AVIAN FACULTATIVE HYPOTHERMIC RESPONSES: A REVIEW

    Andrew E. McKechnie;Barry G. Lovegrove

  • Seasonal thermoregulatory responses in mammals

    Barry G. Lovegrove

  • The Cost of Burrowing by the Social Mole Rats (Bathyergidae) Cryptomys damarensis and Heterocephalus glaber: The Role of Soil Moisture

    B. G. Lovegrove

  • The evolution of endothermy in Cenozoic mammals: a plesiomorphic-apomorphic continuum.

    Barry Gordon Lovegrove

  • The Living Deserts of Southern Africa

    Barry Lovegrove;W. R. Siegfried

  • A phenology of the evolution of endothermy in birds and mammals

    Barry G. Lovegrove

  • Sociality in molerats : Metabolic scaling and the role of risk sensitivity.

    B. G. Lovegrove;C. Wissel

  • The energetic cost of arousal from torpor in the marsupial Sminthopsis macroura: benefits of summer ambient temperature cycles.

    B. G. Lovegrove;G. Körtner;F. Geiser

  • The metabolism of social subterranean rodents: adaptation to aridity.

    B. G. Lovegrove

  • Phenotypic flexibility in the basal metabolic rate of laughing doves: responses to short-term thermal acclimation.

    Andrew E. McKechnie;Andrew E. McKechnie;Kinesh Chetty;Barry G. Lovegrove

  • Circadian metabolic and thermoregulatory patterns of red-billed woodhoopoes ( Phoeniculus purpureus ): the influence of huddling

    C. Boix-Hinzen;B.G. Lovegrove

  • Torpor and hibernation in a basal placental mammal, the Lesser Hedgehog Tenrec Echinops telfairi

    Barry G. Lovegrove;Fabien Génin

  • Exogenous passive heating during torpor arousal in free-ranging rock elephant shrews, Elephantulus myurus

    Nomakwezi Mzilikazi;Barry G. Lovegrove;David O. Ribble

  • Mammal survival at the Cretaceous–Palaeogene boundary: metabolic homeostasis in prolonged tropical hibernation in tenrecs

    Barry G. Lovegrove;Kerileigh D. Lobban;Danielle L. Levesque

  • Thermoregulation and the energetic significance of clustering behavior in the white-backed mousebird (Colius colius).

    Andrew E. McKechnie;Barry G. Lovegrove

  • Daily torpor in free-ranging rock elephant shrews, Elephantulus myurus: a year-long study.

    Nomakwezi Mzilikazi;Barry G. Lovegrove

  • Modification and miniaturization of Thermochron iButtons for surgical implantation into small animals

    Barry G. Lovegrove

  • Heterothermy in elephant shrews, Elephantulus spp. (Macroscelidea): daily torpor or hibernation?

    B. G. Lovegrove;J. Raman;M. R. Perrin

  • Are Tropical Small Mammals Physiologically Vulnerable to Arrhenius Effects and Climate Change?*

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Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew E. McKechnie
Andrew E. McKechnie University of Pretoria
Michael Scantlebury
Michael Scantlebury Queen's University Belfast
Gerhard Körtner
Gerhard Körtner University of New England
Colleen T. Downs
Colleen T. Downs University of KwaZulu-Natal
Nigel C. Bennett
Nigel C. Bennett University of Pretoria
Fritz Geiser
Fritz Geiser University of New England
Michael J. Lawes
Michael J. Lawes University of KwaZulu-Natal
Christian Wissel
Christian Wissel Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

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