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Keith Owens
Department Head


Office: 011 Ag Hall
Address: 008C Ag Hall
Stillwater, OK 74077
Phone: (405) 744-5438
Fax: (405) 744-3530
Email: keith.owens@okstate.edu

Education
BS: Forest Management, University of Idaho, Moscow, May 1977
BS: Range Management, University of Idaho, Moscow, May 1977
MS: Range Management, University of Wyoming, Laramie, February 1981
PhD: Range Science, Utah State University, Logan, February 1987

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Honors and Awards

Vice Chancellors Award in Excellence - Off-Campus Research, 2006.
Outstanding Achievement Award - Society for Range Management, 2006.
Publication Award: Technical Writing -
Texas Section Society for Range     
     Management, 2005.
Editor-in-Chief
, 2004 to present, Rangeland Ecology & Management.
Leadership Development Program, ESCOP/ACOP Class 10, 2001.


Professional Memberships
Society for Range Management, 1986 to present.
Ecological Society of America, 1988 to present.
Botanical Society of America, 1994 to 1998.
American Geophysical Union, 2002 to present.

Recent Publications (since 2000)

Owens M.K. and G.W. Moore. 2007. Saltcedar water use: realistic and unrealistic expectations. Rangeland Ecology & Management (in press). 

Moore, ZG.W., J.R. Cleverly, and M.K. Owens. 2007. Nocturnal transpiration in riparian Tamarix thickets authenticated by sap flux, eddy covariance, and leaf gas exchange measurements. Tree Physiology: (In press). 

Owens, M.K., R.K. Lyons and C.J. Alejandro. 2006. Rainfall partitioning within semiarid juniper communities: Effects of event size and canopy cover. Hydrological Processes 20:3179-3189. 

Wilcox, B.P., M.K. Owens, W.A. Dugas, D.N. Ueckert, and C.R. Hart. 2006.  Shrubs, streamflow, and the paradox of scale . Hydrological Processes 20:3245-3259.

Amador, B. A., J. E. Slosser, G. B. Idol, M. N. Parajulee, W. E. Pinchak, R. J. Ansley and M. K. Owens.  2006.  Population dynamics and response to mesquite pod supplementation of Algarobius bottimeri and Mimosetes amicus.  Southwest Entomology 31:103-112.

Moore, G.W. and M.K. Owens. 2006.  Removing adult overstory trees stimulates growth and transpiration of conspecific juvenile trees.  Rangeland Ecology & Management 59:416-421.

Cooper, S.M., M.K. Owens,  R. M. Cooper and T.F. Ginnett. 2006.  Effect of supplemental feeding on spatial distribution and browse utilization by white-tailed deer in semi-arid rangeland. Journal of Arid Environments 66:716-726. 

Wilcox, B.P., M.K. Owens, R.W. Knight and R.K. Lyons. 2005. Do woody plants affect streamflow on semiarid karst rangelands? Ecological Applications 15:127-136. 

Streeks, T.J., M.K. Owens and S.G. Whisenant. 2005.  Fire behavior modeling in mesquite/acacia shrublands.  International Journal of Wildland Fire 14:131-140. 

Ocumpaugh, W.R., W.J. Grichar Jr., M.A. Hussey, A.H. Abrament, M.K. Owens, R.L. Reed, J.P. Muir, D. Bade, and J.L. Reilley. 2004. Registration of ‘BeeTAM-08' Bundleflower. Crop Science 44:1861. 

Ocumpaugh, W.R., W.J. Grichar Jr., M.A. Hussey, A.H. Abrament, M.K. Owens, R.L. Reed, J.P. Muir, D. Bade, and J.L. Reilley. 2004. Registration of ‘BeeTAM-57' Bundleflower. Crop Science 44:1863. 

Ocumpaugh, W.R., W.J. Grichar Jr., M.A. Hussey, A.H. Abrament, M.K. Owens, R.L. Reed, J.P. Muir, D. Bade, and J.L. Reilley. 2004. Registration of ‘BeeTAM-37' Bundleflower. Crop Science 44:1862. 

Ocumpaugh, W.R., W.J. Grichar Jr., M.A. Hussey, A.H. Abrament, M.K. Owens, R.L. Reed, J.P. Muir, D. Bade, and J.L. Reilley. 2004. Registration of ‘BeeTAM-06' Bundleflower. Crop Science 44:1860. 

Engle, D.M., J.R. Brown, J.S. Fehmi, S.D. Fuhlendorf, R.L. Gillen, and M.K. Owens. (Authors in alphabetical order after the senior author) 2003. An analysis of the Journal of Range Management: Report of the SRM Task Force. Rangelands 25:13‑22. 

Cooper, S.M., M.K. Owens, D.E. Spalinger, and T.F. Ginnett. 2003. The architecture of shrubs and the subsequent feeding behavior of browsers. Oikos 100:387-393. 

Perkins, S. and M.K. Owens. 2003. Growth and biomass allocation of shrub and grass seedlings in response to predicted changes in precipitation seasonality. Plant Ecology 168:107-120. 

Owens, M. Keith, J.W. Mackley and C.J. Carroll. 2002. Vegetation dynamics following seasonal fires in mixed mesquite/acacia savanna. J. Range Manage 55:509-516.