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

University of Auckland , mottoeng = By natural ability and hard work , established = 1883; years ago , endowment = NZD $293 million (31 December 2021) , budget = NZD $1.281 billion (31 December 2021) , chancellor = Cecilia Tarrant , vice_chancellor = Dawn ...

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

After a

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titled '' 'Gut microorganisms of surgeonfishes (family

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)' '' at the

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, Clements moved to the

, rising to full professor. 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

phylogeny A phylogenetic tree (also phylogeny or evolutionary tree Felsenstein J. (2004). ''Inferring Phylogenies'' Sinauer Associates: Sunderland, MA.) is a branching diagram or a tree showing the evolutionary relationships among various biological spe ...

and

taxonomy Taxonomy is the practice and science of categorization or classification. A taxonomy (or taxonomical classification) is a scheme of classification, especially a hierarchical classification, in which things are organized into groups or types. ...

of Kyphosidae (

sea chubs The sea chubs, also known as rudderfish and pilot fish and in Hawaiian as ''enenue'' or ''nenue'', are a family, Kyphosidae, of fishes in the order Perciformes native to the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans usually close to shore in marine w ...

)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 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''.Kendall Clements, Garth Cooper,

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, Douglas Elliffe,

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, Elizabeth Rata, and John Werry. “In Defence of Science.” New Zealand Listener, 31 July 2021. p.4

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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