| Check-list of North American birds American Ornithologists' Union American Ornithologists' Union, 1910 | 1305* | 1910 |
| The roles of island area per se and habitat diversity in the species–area relationships of four Lesser Antillean faunal groups RE Ricklefs, IJ Lovette Journal of Animal Ecology 68 (6), 1142-1160, 1999 | 615 | 1999 |
| Density-dependent diversification in North American wood warblers DL Rabosky, IJ Lovette Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 275 (1649), 2363-2371, 2008 | 419 | 2008 |
| Experimental evidence for extreme dispersal limitation in tropical forest birds RP Moore, WD Robinson, IJ Lovette, TR Robinson Ecology letters 11 (9), 960-968, 2008 | 412 | 2008 |
| Explosive evolutionary radiations: decreasing speciation or increasing extinction through time? DL Rabosky, IJ Lovette Evolution 62 (8), 1866-1875, 2008 | 408 | 2008 |
| Plumage genes and little else distinguish the genomes of hybridizing warblers DPL Toews, SA Taylor, R Vallender, A Brelsford, BG Butcher, PW Messer, ... Current Biology 26 (17), 2313-2318, 2016 | 402 | 2016 |
| Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics S Feng, J Stiller, Y Deng, J Armstrong, QI Fang, AH Reeve, D Xie, G Chen, ... Nature 587 (7833), 252-257, 2020 | 337 | 2020 |
| Mitochondrial dating and mixed support for the “2% rule” in birds IJ Lovette The Auk 121 (1), 1-6, 2004 | 314 | 2004 |
| Exceptional among-lineage variation in diversification rates during the radiation of Australia's most diverse vertebrate clade DL Rabosky, SC Donnellan, AL Talaba, IJ Lovette Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 274 (1628), 2915-2923, 2007 | 273 | 2007 |
| Analysis and visualization of complex macroevolutionary dynamics: an example from Australian scincid lizards DL Rabosky, SC Donnellan, M Grundler, IJ Lovette Systematic biology 63 (4), 610-627, 2014 | 272 | 2014 |
| Temporal environmental variability drives the evolution of cooperative breeding in birds DR Rubenstein, IJ Lovette Current Biology 17 (16), 1414-1419, 2007 | 269 | 2007 |
| Clade-specific morphological diversification and adaptive radiation in Hawaiian songbirds IJ Lovette, E Bermingham, RE Ricklefs Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences …, 2002 | 257 | 2002 |
| Forty-Fifth Supplement to the American Ornithologists’ Union Check-List of North American Birds RC Banks, C Cicero, JL Dunn, AW Kratter, PC Rasmussen, JV Remsen Jr, ... The Auk 121 (3), 985-995, 2004 | 237* | 2004 |
| Congruent population structure inferred from dispersal behaviour and intensive genetic surveys of the threatened Florida scrub‐jay (Aphelocoma cœrulescens) A Coulon, JW Fitzpatrick, R Bowman, BM Stith, CA Makarewich, ... Molecular Ecology 17 (7), 1685-1701, 2008 | 233 | 2008 |
| Explosive speciation in the New World Dendroica warblers IJ Lovette, E Bermingham Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences …, 1999 | 232 | 1999 |
| Simultaneous effects of phylogenetic niche conservatism and competition on avian community structure IJ Lovette, WM Hochachka Ecology 87 (sp7), S14-S28, 2006 | 217 | 2006 |
| Handbook of Bird Biology IJ Lovette Cornell University Press, 2016 | 208 | 2016 |
| A comprehensive multilocus phylogeny for the wood-warblers and a revised classification of the Parulidae (Aves) IJ Lovette, JL Pérez-Emán, JP Sullivan, RC Banks, I Fiorentino, ... Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 57 (2), 753-770, 2010 | 199 | 2010 |
| Stable isotopes as indicators of altitudinal distributions and movements in an Ecuadorean hummingbird community KA Hobson, LI Wassenaar, B Milá, I Lovette, C Dingle, TB Smith Oecologia 136, 302-308, 2003 | 199 | 2003 |
| Glacial cycles and the tempo of avian speciation IJ Lovette Trends in Ecology & Evolution 20 (2), 57-59, 2005 | 197 | 2005 |
