| The zoogeography of mammalian basal metabolic rate BG Lovegrove The American Naturalist 156 (2), 201-219, 2000 | 476 | 2000 |
| The influence of climate on the basal metabolic rate of small mammals: a slow-fast metabolic continuum BG Lovegrove Journal of Comparative Physiology B 173, 87-112, 2003 | 419 | 2003 |
| Avian facultative hypothermic responses: a review AE McKechnie, BG Lovegrove The Condor 104 (4), 705-724, 2002 | 327 | 2002 |
| Phenotypic plasticity in the scaling of avian basal metabolic rate AE McKechnie, RP Freckleton, W Jetz Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 273 (1589), 931-937, 2006 | 205 | 2006 |
| Seasonal thermoregulatory responses in mammals BG Lovegrove Journal of Comparative Physiology B 175, 231-247, 2005 | 201 | 2005 |
| The cost of burrowing by the social mole rats (Bathyergidae) Cryptomys damarensis and Heterocephalus glaber: the role of soil moisture BG Lovegrove Physiological Zoology 62 (2), 449-469, 1989 | 195 | 1989 |
| The Living Deserts of Southern African B Lovegrove Penguin Random House South Africa, 2021 | 172 | 2021 |
| The evolution of endothermy in Cenozoic mammals: a plesiomorphic‐apomorphic continuum BG Lovegrove Biological Reviews 87 (1), 128-162, 2012 | 169 | 2012 |
| A phenology of the evolution of endothermy in birds and mammals BG Lovegrove Biological Reviews 92 (2), 1213-1240, 2017 | 139 | 2017 |
| Sociality in molerats: metabolic scaling and the role of risk sensitivity BG Lovegrove, C Wissel Oecologia 74, 600-606, 1988 | 136 | 1988 |
| The energetic cost of arousal from torpor in the marsupial Sminthopsis macroura: benefits of summer ambient temperature cycles BG Lovegrove, G Körtner, F Geiser Journal of Comparative Physiology B 169, 11-18, 1999 | 124 | 1999 |
| Torpor and hibernation in a basal placental mammal, the Lesser Hedgehog Tenrec Echinops telfairi BG Lovegrove, F Génin Journal of Comparative Physiology B 178, 691-698, 2008 | 112 | 2008 |
| Phenotypic flexibility in the basal metabolic rate of laughing doves: responses to short-term thermal acclimation AE McKechnie, K Chetty, BG Lovegrove Journal of Experimental Biology 210 (1), 97-106, 2007 | 110 | 2007 |
| The metabolism of social subterranean rodents: adaptation to aridity BG Lovegrove Oecologia 69, 551-555, 1986 | 110 | 1986 |
| Are tropical small mammals physiologically vulnerable to Arrhenius effects and climate change? BG Lovegrove, C Canale, D Levesque, G Fluch, M Řeháková-Petrů, T Ruf Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 87 (1), 30-45, 2014 | 101 | 2014 |
| Exogenous passive heating during torpor arousal in free-ranging rock elephant shrews, Elephantulus myurus N Mzilikazi, BG Lovegrove, DO Ribble Oecologia 133, 307-314, 2002 | 101 | 2002 |
| Mammal survival at the Cretaceous–Palaeogene boundary: metabolic homeostasis in prolonged tropical hibernation in tenrecs BG Lovegrove, KD Lobban, DL Levesque Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281 (1796), 20141304, 2014 | 95 | 2014 |
| Modification and miniaturization of Thermochron iButtons for surgical implantation into small animals BG Lovegrove Journal of Comparative Physiology B 179, 451-458, 2009 | 95 | 2009 |
| The evolution of eusociality in molerats (Bathyergidae): a question of risks, numbers, and costs BG Lovegrove Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 28, 37-45, 1991 | 88 | 1991 |
| Thermoregulation and the Energetic Significance of Clustering Behavior in the White-Backed Mousebird (Colius colius) AE McKechnie, BG Lovegrove Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 74 (2), 238-249, 2001 | 87 | 2001 |
