Robert Owen

Research Interests

Research in my program is directed toward a broad variety of systematic questions, primarily concerning mammals. These questions may be of a traditional systematic orientation (i.e., establishing the phylogeny and classification of a group), but may also include related questions of historical zoogeography. I and my students and colleagues are involved in long-term multidisciplinary investigations of Paraguayan and Mexican mammals and associated ectoparasite communities.

Selected Publications

• Owen, R.D. 1996. Algunas técnicas morfométricas en sistemática de murciélagos. Universidad Ciencia y Tecnología, 3(2):1-14.
• Bogdanowicz, W., and R.D. Owen. 1996. Landmark-based size and shape analysis in systematics of the plecotine bats. Pp. 489-501, in Advances in Morphometrics (L.F. Marcus, M. Corti, A. Loy, G.J.P. Naylor, and D.E. Slice, eds.). Plenum Press, New York.
• Bogdanowicz, W., and R.D. Owen. 1998. In the Minotaurs labyrinth: the phylogeney of the bat family Hipposideridae. Pp. 27-42, In Bats: phylogeny, morphology, echolocation, and onservation biology (T.H. Kunz and P.A. Racey, eds.). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington.
• Sheeler-Gordon, L., and R.D. Owen. 1999. Host tracking or resource tracking? The case of Periglischrus wing mites (Acarina: Spinturnicidae) of leaf-nosed bats (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) from Michoacan, Mexico. Acta Zoológica Mexicana (n.s.), 76:85-102.
• Willig, M.R., S.J. Presley, R.D. Owen, and C. López-González. 2000. Composition and structure of bat assemblages in Paraguay: a subtropical - temperate interface. Journal of Mammalogy, 81:386-401.
• Romero-Almaraz, M. de L., C. Sánchez-Hernández, C. Garcia-Estrada, and R.D. Owen. 2000. Pequeños Mamíferos, un Manual de las Técnicas de Captura, Preparación, Preservación y Estudio. Facultad de Ciencias and Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, México, and Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos, Cuernavaca. xii + 151 pp. + 16 pl.
• Gettinger, D., and R.D. Owen. 2000. Androlaelaps rotundus Fonseca (Acari: Laelapidae) associated with akodontine rodents in Paraguay: a morphometric examination of a pleioxenous ectoparasite. Revista Brasileira de Biología, 20:425-434.
• Owen, R.D. 2000. La importancia de los inventarios cuantitativos en la conservación de la fauna silvestre. Pp. 15-28, in Manejo de Fauna Silvestre en Amazonia y Latinoamerica (E. Cabrera, C. Mercolli, and R. Resquín, eds.). Fundación Moises Bertoni, Asunción, Paraguay.