Dr K Robert Clarke

" Current position

PML Honorary Fellow and co-director of PRIMER-E

" Address

Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Prospect Place, West Hoe, Plymouth PL1 3DH, UK
Phone at PLM +44 1752 633100, and at PRIMER-E: +44 1752 783366
Fax at PLM +44 1752 633101, and at PRIMER-E: +44 1752 783366
E-mail at PLM krc@pml.ac.uk , and at PRIMER-E: admin@primer-e.com

" Academic qualifications

1969 first class Hons degree in Mathematics (Univ. Leicester, UK)
1970 M. Sc in Statistics (Univ. Newcastle, UK)
1976 Ph. D in Statistics (Univ. Newcastle, UK)
1976-1979 lecturer in the University of Glasgow Statistics Department
1979-2000 statistical research scientist and member of the executive management of the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML)
2000-2001 Visiting Professorship in the University of Sydney

" Research interests and expertise

Statistical methodology in ecology and environmental science, particularly for multivariate community data sets and biodiversity studies
He has published about 75 refereed papers in SCI-listed journals, a few of the more highly cited of which are listed below, given many invited lectures to international conferences in statistics (International Biometric Society, International Environmetrics Society, Sydney International Statistics Congress, Royal Statistical Society) and environmental science (SETAC, Washington; MacMillan Biodiversity Lecture, Vancouver etc), and led many academic and commercial training workshops on statistical analysis of environmental data, e.g. under the auspices of IOC, FAO and UNEP (including an extensive series in European countries under the Mediterranean Pollution Programme). Dr Clarke is responsible for the development of the PRIMER software package for statistical analysis of community data, now used by ecologists and environmental scientists worldwide, particularly in the marine sciences but increasingly in freshwater, terrestrial and palaeontological contexts.

" Current projects

UK and EC grant-funded work on new biodiversity estimators with robust properties, spatial structuring, impacts of demersal fishing on benthic community structure etc. Research funded through PRIMER-E on further development of multivariate statistical methods for future versions of PRIMER.

" Selected well cited and more recent publications

Valesini, F.J., Clarke, K.R., Eliot, I. and Potter, I.C., 2003. A user-friendly quantitative approach to classifying nearshore marine habitats along a heterogeneous coast. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 57: 163-177.

Brown, B.E., Clarke, K.R. and Warwick, R.M., 2002. Serial patterns of biodiversity change in corals across shallow reef flats in Ko Phuket, Thailand. Marine Biology, 141: 21-29.

Somerfield, P.J., Clarke, K.R. and Olsgard, F., 2002. A comparison of the power of categorical and correlational tests applied to community ecology data from gradient studies. Journal of Animal Ecology, 71: 581-593.

Clarke, K.R. and Warwick, R.M., 2001. A further biodiversity index applicable to species lists: variation in taxonomic distinctness. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 216: 265-278.

Rotchell, J.M., Clarke, K.R., Newton, L.C. and Bird, D.J., 2001. Hepatic metallothionein as a biomarker for metal contamination. Marine Environmental Research, 52: 151-171.

Warwick, R.M. and Clarke, K.R., 2001. Practical measures of marine biodiversity based on relatedness of species. Oceanography and Marine Biology Annual Review, 39: 207-231.

Joint, I.R., Callow, M.E., Callow, J.A. and Clarke, K.R., 2000. The attachment of Enteromorpha zoospores to a bacterial biofilm assemblage. Biofouling, 16: 151-158.

Clarke, K.R., 1999. Non-metric multivariate analysis in community-level ecotoxicology. Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry, 18: 118-127.

Rogers, S.I., Clarke, K.R. and Reynolds, J.D., 1999. The taxonomic distinctness of coastal bottom-dwelling fish communities of the Northeast Atlantic. Journal of Animal Ecology, 68: 769-782.

Clarke, K.R. and Warwick, R.M., 1998. Quantifying structural redundancy in ecological communities. Oecologia, 113: 278-289.

Clarke, K.R. and Warwick, R.M., 1998. A taxonomic distinctness index and its statistical properties. Journal of Applied Ecology, 35: 523-531.

Clarke, K.R. and Warwick, R.M., 1994 & 2000 Change in Marine Communities: An Approach to Statistical Analysis and Interpretation, 1st & 2nd eds. Plymouth Marine Laboratory & PRIMER-E: Plymouth [706 SCI citations to Aug 03].

Clarke, K.R., 1993. Non-parametric multivariate analyses of changes in community structure. Australian Journal of Ecology, 18: 117-143 [799 SCI citations to Aug 03].

Clarke, K.R. and Ainsworth, M., 1993. A method of linking multivariate community structure to environmental variables. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 92: 205-219 [234 SCI citations to Aug 03].

Clarke, K.R. and Green, R.H., 1988. Statistical design and analysis for a 'biological effects' study. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 46: 213-226 [363 SCI citations to Aug 03].

Field, J.G., Clarke, K.R. and Warwick, R.M., 1982. A practical strategy for analysing multispecies distribution patterns. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 8: 37-52 [581 SCI citations to Aug 03].