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In memory of Barry Gordon Lovegrove

In memory of Barry Gordon Lovegrove OBITUARY Barry Gordon Lovegrove was born on 5 December 1956 to aridity evolved into a broader focus on global patterns and spent most of his childhood in Cape Town. After of mammal physiology and what they can tell us about the completing his BSc and BSc Honours degrees in the ways in which endotherms evolve in response to climate. University of Cape Town’s Department of Zoology, Barry He was one of the pioneers of macrophysiology, and the went on to obtain a PhD under the supervision of Professor comprehensive global datasets of mammalian basal Gideon Louw, a leading desert biologist and co-author metabolic rates he synthesized early in his career led to with Mary Seely of the influential Ecology of Desert a new understanding of global patterns and variability Organisms. At the time, the UCT Zoology department was in mammalian physiology (e.g. Lovegrove 2000, 2003). an epicentre for ecophysiological research in southern These data form the basis for many macro-analyses and Africa. The academic staff included Gideon Louw, Jenny global datasets in use today by comparative physiologists Jarvis and Sue Nicolson, while the postgraduate student globally. In collating data from around the world, as well as cohort included Barry, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png African Zoology Taylor & Francis

In memory of Barry Gordon Lovegrove

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In memory of Barry Gordon Lovegrove

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OBITUARY Barry Gordon Lovegrove was born on 5 December 1956 to aridity evolved into a broader focus on global patterns and spent most of his childhood in Cape Town. After of mammal physiology and what they can tell us about the completing his BSc and BSc Honours degrees in the ways in which endotherms evolve in response to climate. University of Cape Town’s Department of Zoology, Barry He was one of the pioneers of macrophysiology, and the went on to obtain a PhD under the supervision...
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Taylor & Francis
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© 2022 Zoological Society of Southern Africa
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2224-073X
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1562-7020
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10.1080/15627020.2022.2063424
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Abstract

OBITUARY Barry Gordon Lovegrove was born on 5 December 1956 to aridity evolved into a broader focus on global patterns and spent most of his childhood in Cape Town. After of mammal physiology and what they can tell us about the completing his BSc and BSc Honours degrees in the ways in which endotherms evolve in response to climate. University of Cape Town’s Department of Zoology, Barry He was one of the pioneers of macrophysiology, and the went on to obtain a PhD under the supervision of Professor comprehensive global datasets of mammalian basal Gideon Louw, a leading desert biologist and co-author metabolic rates he synthesized early in his career led to with Mary Seely of the influential Ecology of Desert a new understanding of global patterns and variability Organisms. At the time, the UCT Zoology department was in mammalian physiology (e.g. Lovegrove 2000, 2003). an epicentre for ecophysiological research in southern These data form the basis for many macro-analyses and Africa. The academic staff included Gideon Louw, Jenny global datasets in use today by comparative physiologists Jarvis and Sue Nicolson, while the postgraduate student globally. In collating data from around the world, as well as cohort included Barry,

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African Zoology – Taylor & Francis

Published: Jan 2, 2022

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  • The power of fitness in mammals: perceptions from the African slipstream
  • The evolution of endothermy in Cenozoic mammals: a Pleisiomorphic-Apomorphic continuum
  • A phenology of the evolution of endothermy in birds and mammals