Kendall Clements

Kendall Clements
Born
Kendall David Clements
Alma materJames Cook University
Scientific career
Thesis
Doctoral advisorHoward Choat
Doctoral studentsMaren Wellenreuther

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]

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. ^ a b "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.