Kendall Clements

Kendall David Clements is a New Zealand academic and as of 2021 is a full professor at the University of Auckland specialising in the ecology and evolution of fish.^[1]

Kendall Clements
Born	Kendall David Clements
Alma mater	James Cook University
Scientific career
Thesis	Gut microorganisms of surgeonfishes (family Acanthuridae)  (1991)
Doctoral advisor	Howard Choat
Doctoral students	Maren Wellenreuther

Career

After a PhD titled 'Gut microorganisms of surgeonfishes (family Acanthuridae)' at the James Cook University, Clements moved to the University of Auckland, rising to full professor.^[1]

Clements is an expert in marine fish ecology and taxonomy, particularly focusing on herbivory in coral reef fishes,^{[2][3][4][5][6]} and the phylogeny and taxonomy of Kyphosidae (sea chubs)^[7][8] and triplefins.^[9]

In July 2021, in the context of a review of the NCEA (New Zealand's National Curriculum), Clements was lead author of a controversial letter "In Defence of Science" in the New Zealand Listener.^[10]

Notable doctoral students of Clements include Maren Wellenreuther.^[11]

Selected works

• Choat, J., Clements, K. and Robbins, W., 2002. The trophic status of herbivorous fishes on coral reefs. Marine Biology, 140(3), pp. 613–623.
• Angert, Esther R., Kendall D. Clements, and Norman R. Pace. "The largest bacterium." Nature 362, no. 6417 (1993): 239–241.
• Choat, John Howard, and K. D. Clements. "Vertebrate herbivores in marine and terrestrial environments: a nutritional ecology perspective." Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 29, no. 1 (1998): 375–403.
• Choat, J., K. Clements, and W. Robbins. "The trophic status of herbivorous fishes on coral reefs." Marine Biology 140, no. 3 (2002): 613–623.

References

1. "Professor Kendall David Clements." University of Auckland staff page. Accessed 2021-11-29. https://unidirectory.auckland.ac.nz/profile/k-clements
2. Choat, J., Clements, K. and Robbins, W., 2002. The trophic status of herbivorous fishes on coral reefs. Marine Biology, 140(3), pp. 613–623.
3. Nicholson, G.M.; Clements, K.D. (2020). "Resolving resource partitioning in parrotfishes (Scarini) using microhistology of feeding substrata." Coral Reefs 39, 1313-1327. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2020.107021
4. Johnson, J.S.; Raubenheimer, D.; Bury, S.J., Clements, K.D. (2020). "Does temperature constrain diet choice in a marine herbivorous fish?" Marine Biology 167, 99, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-020-3677-z
5. Taylor, B.M.; Benkwitt, C.E.; Choat, H.; Clements, K.D.; Graham, N.A.J., et al. (2020). "Synchronous biological feedbacks in parrotfishes associated with pantropical coral bleaching." Global Change Biology 26 (3), 1285-1294. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14909
6. Nicholson, G.M; Clements, K.D. (2021). "Ecomorphological divergence and trophic resource partitioning in 15 syntopic Indo-Pacific parrotfishes (Labridae: Scarini)." Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 132 (3), 590-611. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blaa210
7. Beldade, R.; Longo, G.C.; Clements, K.D.; Robertson, D.R.; Perez-Matus, A., et al. (2021). "Evolutionary origin of the Atlantic Cabo Verde nibbler (Girella stuebeli), a member of a primarily Pacific Ocean family of antitropical herbivorous reef fishes." Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 156, 107021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2020.107021
8. Knudsen, S. W.; Choat, J.H.; Clements, K.D. (2020). "The herbivorous fish family Kyphosidae (Teleostei: Perciformes) represents a recent radiation from higher latitudes." Journal of Biogeography 46 (9), 2067-2080. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13634
9. Stewart, A.W.; Knudsen, S.W; Clements, K.D. (2021). "A new species of deep-water triplefin (Pisces: Tripterygiidae) in the genus Ruanoho from coastal New Zealand waters." Zootaxa 4981 (1), 123–136. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4981.1.8
10. Kendall Clements, Garth Cooper, Michael Corballis, Douglas Elliffe, Robert Nola, Elizabeth Rata, and John Werry. “In Defence of Science.” New Zealand Listener, 31 July 2021. p.4
11. Wellenreuther, Maren (2007). Ecological factors associated with speciation in New Zealand triplefin fishes (Family Tripterygiidae) (Thesis thesis). ResearchSpace@Auckland.

External links

• Kendall Clements publications indexed by Google Scholar