Jennifer Owen
British entomologist
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Jennifer Owen's Degrees
- PhD Entomology University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Jennifer Owen is a British zoologist. Career Jennifer Bak was the daughter of F. A. Bak, a noted amateur ornithologist and Leicester based textile manufacturer. She went on to study zoology in Oxford where, in 1955 as an undergraduate, she met Denis Owen. They married after graduation in 1958 and she went to the University of Michigan to work as a teaching fellow and complete a research PhD on the study of wasps. After the doctorate Owen took up teaching positions from 1962 in Makerere University, Uganda and Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone as well as Sweden. On her return to the department of zoology with University of Leicester in 1971 she noticed the huge number of insects in her garden in the United Kingdom compared to those in Africa and the study began.
Jennifer Owen's Published Works
Published Works
- Species diversity in temperate and tropical Ichneumonidae (1974) (124)
- The Ecology of a Garden: The First Fifteen Years (1992) (120)
- Suburban Gardens: England's Most Important Nature Reserve? (1975) (60)
- Autochthonous Leishmania siamensis in Horse, Florida, USA (2012) (59)
- Species diversity of Ichneumonidae and Serphidae (Hymenoptera) in an English suburban garden (1981) (28)
- Low Mating Frequencies in an African Butterfly (1973) (19)
- Trophic variety and abundance of hoverflies (Diptera, Syrphidae) in an English suburban garden (1981) (19)
- The red-eared slider, Trachemys scripta elegans, in the British Virgin Islands (2007) (17)
- Seasonal Changes in Relative Abundance and Estimates of Species Diversity in a Family of Tropical Butterflies (1972) (16)
- Low Mating Frequency in Predominantly Female Populations of the Butterfly, Acraea encedon (L.) (Lep.) (1973) (12)
- Tailless Whipscorpion (Phrynus longipes) Feeds on Antillean Crested Hummingbird (Orthorhyncus cristatus) (2006) (11)
- The Cuban tree frog (Osteopilus septentrionalis): Distribution, diet, and reproduction of an invasive species in the British Virgin Islands (2005) (11)
- Kiricephalus coarctatus in an Eastern Indigo Snake (Drymarchon couperi); endoscopic removal, identification, and phylogeny. (2012) (7)
- Assessing Insect Species-richness at a Single Site (1990) (5)
- BEHAVIOUR AND DIET OF A CAPTIVE ROYAL ANTELOPE, NEOTRAGUS PYGMAEUS L. (1973) (4)
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