Kendall Clements

{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2021}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=February 2021}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Kendall Clements | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image =  | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Kendall David Clements | birth_date =  | birth_place = | death_date =  | death_place = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates =  | other_names = | citizenship = | nationality = | fields = | workplaces = | patrons = | alma_mater = James Cook University | thesis1_title = Gut microorganisms of surgeonfishes (family Acanthuridae) | thesis1_url = https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/33764/ | thesis1_year = 1991 | doctoral_advisor = Howard Choat | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = Maren Wellenreuther | notable_students = | known_for = | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | signature =  | signature_alt = | website =  | footnotes = | spouse = | children = }} '''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.<ref name="bio">"Professor Kendall David Clements." University of Auckland staff page. Accessed 2021-11-29. https://unidirectory.auckland.ac.nz/profile/k-clements</ref>

==Career== Clements completed a Bachelor of Science at Victoria University Wellington in 1981 and a Master of Science (Honours) at the University of Auckland, New Zealand in 1985.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Professor Kendall Clements |url=https://profiles.auckland.ac.nz/k-clements/about |access-date=2025-03-28 |website=University of Auckland}}</ref> He completed a PhD in 1991 titled ''<nowiki/>'Gut microorganisms of surgeonfishes (family Acanthuridae)' ''at James Cook University. He was a recipient of the Lizard Island Doctoral Fellowship, funded by the Australian Museum.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Fellows and Grant Recipients Details about fellowships for postdoctoral scientists |url=https://australian.museum/get-involved/amri/lirs/lizard-island-fellows/ |access-date=2025-03-28 |website=The Australian Museum |language=en}}</ref>

Clements then moved to work at the University of Auckland, becoming a full professor in 2012.<ref name="bio" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=October 2012 |title=Staff news |url=https://www.auckland.ac.nz/assets/science/about/our-faculty/inscight/inscight-2012.pdf |access-date=28 March 2025 |website=InSCight - Faculty of Science Alumni Magazine |page=5}}</ref> Clements is an expert in marine fish ecology and taxonomy, particularly focusing on herbivory in coral reef fishes,<ref name="Choat_etal_2002">Choat, J., Clements, K. and Robbins, W., 2002. The trophic status of herbivorous fishes on coral reefs. Marine Biology, 140(3), pp. 613–623.</ref><ref name=NicholsonClements2020>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 </ref><ref name=Johnson_etal_2020>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</ref><ref name=Taylor_etal_2020>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</ref><ref name=Nicholson_Clements_2021>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</ref> and the phylogeny and taxonomy of Kyphosidae (sea chubs)<ref name=Beldade_etal_2021>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</ref><ref name=Knudsen_etal_2020>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</ref> and triplefins.<ref name=Stewart_etal_2021>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</ref>

In 2018, Clements and Associate Professor Lindsey White (Auckland University of Technology) were awarded an Endeavour Grant from the New Zealand government titled "Microbial conversion of kelp to high nitrogen plant and animal feeds."<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Making waves in global food production technology |url=https://www.nesi.org.nz/case-studies/making-waves-global-food-production-technology |access-date=2025-03-28 |website=New Zealand eScience Infrastructure |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Kendall Clements |url=https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8512-5977 |access-date=2025-03-28 |website=orcid.org}}</ref> The grant provided $6 million NZD to the project team until 2024 to investigate converting kelp into agricultural feed.<ref name=":0" />

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''.<ref>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</ref> He also co-authored an opinion piece on academic freedom in universities in 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Johnston |first=Michael |last2=Clements |first2=Kendall |last3=Martin |first3=Gaven |last4=James |first4=Kierstead |date=2024-12-17 |title=Why universities must be neutral |url=https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/12/18/why-universities-must-be-neutral/ |access-date=2025-03-28 |website=Newsroom |language=en-US}}</ref>

Notable doctoral students of Clements include Maren Wellenreuther.<ref>{{Cite thesis |title=Ecological factors associated with speciation in New Zealand triplefin fishes (Family Tripterygiidae) |url=https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/handle/2292/407 |publisher=ResearchSpace@Auckland |date=2007 |degree=Thesis |language=en |first=Maren |last=Wellenreuther}}</ref>

== 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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