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Keith Owens |
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| 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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| Curriculum Vitae |
| Research Interests: |
| Honors and Awards |
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Vice Chancellors Award in
Excellence - Off-Campus Research, 2006. |
| Professional Memberships |
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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) |
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Heilman, J.L., M.E. Litvak, K.J. McInnes, J.F. Kjelgaard, A. Thijs, M. Keith Owens, and S. Schwinning. 2009. Impact of woody cover on energy balance and water use in karst landscapes of the Edwards Plateau, Texas. J. Hydrology (submitted). Heilman, J.L., K.J. McInnes, J.F. Kjelgaard, M. Keith Owens, and S. Schwinning. 2009. Energy balance and water use in a subtropical karst woodland on the Edwards Plateau, Texas. J. Hydrology (in press). Gregory, Lucas, Bradford P. Wilcox, Bev Shade, Clyde Munster, Keith Owens, and George Veni. 2009. Large-Scale Rainfall Simulation over Shallow Caves on Karst Shrublands. Ecohydrology 2:72-80. Bendevis, Mira E, M. Keith Owens, James L Heilman, and Kevin J McInnes. 2008. Seasonal and whole-canopy partitioning of gas exchange in a semi-arid woodland. Ecohydrology (Submitted) Taucer, P.I., C.L. Muster, B.P. Wilcox, M.K. Owens and B.P. Mohanty. 2008. Large-scale rainfall simulation experiments on juniper rangelands. Transactions of the ASABE 51:1951-1961 Kjelgaard, J.F., J.L. Heilman, K.J. McInnes, M.K. Owens, R.H. Kamps. 2008. Carbon dioxide exchange in a perennial C3/C4 grassland on the Edwards Plateau, Texas. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 148:953-963. Cooper, S. M., H. L. Perotto-Baldivieso, M. K. Owens, M. G. Meek, and M. Figueroa-Pagán. 2008. Distribution and interaction of white-tailed deer and cattle in a semi-arid grazing system. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 127:85-92. Meek, Michael G, Susan Margaret Cooper, M. Keith Owens, Rose R Cooper, Andrea L Wappel. 2008. White-tailed deer distribution in response to patch burning on rangeland. Journal of Arid Environments 72:2026-2033. Wilcox, B. P., P. I. Taucer, C. L. Munster, M. K. Owens, B. P. Mohanty, J. R. Sorenson, and R. Bazan (2008), Subsurface stormflow is important in semiarid karst shrublands, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L10403, doi:10.1029/2008GL033696. Owens M.K. and G.W. Moore. 2007. Saltcedar water use: realistic and unrealistic expectations. Rangeland Ecology & Management 60:553-557. 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. 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. |
