Kendall David Clements is a New Zealand academic and as of 2021 is a full professor at the

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specialising in the ecology and evolution of fish."Professor Kendall David Clements." University of Auckland staff page. Accessed 2021-11-29. https://unidirectory.auckland.ac.nz/profile/k-clements

Career

Clements completed a Bachelor of Science at Victoria University Wellington in 1981 and a Master of Science (Honours) at the

, New Zealand in 1985. He completed a

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in 1991 titled '''Gut microorganisms of surgeonfishes (family

Acanthuridae Acanthuridae are a family of ray-finned fish which includes surgeonfishes, tangs, and unicornfishes. The family includes about 86 extant species of marine fish living in tropical seas, usually around coral reefs. Many of the species are brigh ...

)' ''at

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. He was a recipient of the

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Doctoral Fellowship, funded by the

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. Clements then moved to work at the

, becoming a full professor in 2012. Clements is an expert in marine fish ecology and taxonomy, particularly focusing on herbivory in coral reef fishes,Choat, J., Clements, K. and Robbins, W., 2002. The trophic status of herbivorous fishes on coral reefs. Marine Biology, 140(3), pp. 613–623.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 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-zTaylor, 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.14909Nicholson, 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 and the

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and

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of Kyphosidae (

sea chubs The sea chubs, also known as rudderfish and pilot fish and in Hawaiian language, Hawaiian as ''enenue'' or ''nenue'', are a family (biology), family, Kyphosidae, (from Greek, ''kyphos'' = hump) of fishes in the order Perciformes native to the At ...

)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.2020.107021Knudsen, 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 and triplefins.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 In 2018, Clements and Associate Professor Lindsey White (

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) were awarded an Endeavour Grant from the New Zealand government titled "Microbial conversion of kelp to high nitrogen plant and animal feeds." The grant provided $6 million NZD to the project team until 2024 to investigate converting kelp into agricultural feed. 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''. He also co-authored an opinion piece on

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in universities in 2024. Notable doctoral students of Clements include

Maren Wellenreuther Maren Wellenreuther is a German–New Zealand marine scientist, and is a full professor at the University of Auckland, specialising in the development of indigenous fish aquaculture. Early life and education Wellenreuther was born in Götting ...

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.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Clements, Kendall Living people Academic staff of the University of Auckland New Zealand biologists James Cook University alumni Year of birth missing (living people)