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]
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."[13][14] The grant provided $6 million NZD to the project team until 2024 to investigate converting kelp into agricultural feed.[13]
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.[15] He also co-authored an opinion piece on academic freedom in universities in 2024.[16]
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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^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-z
^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
^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
^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
^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
^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
