Kendall Clements

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.{{Cite web |title=Professor Kendall Clements |url=https://profiles.auckland.ac.nz/k-clements/about |access-date=2025-03-28 |website=University of Auckland}} He completed a PhD in 1991 titled '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.{{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}}

Clements then moved to work at the University of Auckland, becoming a full professor in 2012.{{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}} 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 and taxonomy of Kyphosidae (sea chubs)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 (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."{{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}}{{Cite web |title=Kendall Clements |url=https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8512-5977 |access-date=2025-03-28 |website=orcid.org}} 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.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 He also co-authored an opinion piece on academic freedom in universities in 2024.{{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}}

Notable doctoral students of Clements include Maren Wellenreuther.{{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}}

• 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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