Pierre Legendre (ecologist)
| Pierre Legendre | |
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| Born |
5 October 1946 Montreal, Canada |
| Residence | Montreal |
| Citizenship | Canadian |
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| Notable students | Marie-Josée Fortin |
| Known for | Numerical ecology |
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Website http://adn.biol.umontreal.ca/~numericalecology/indexEn.html | |
Pierre Legendre MSRC OQ (born 5 October 1946) is a professor of ecology at Université de Montréal. He is the founder of numerical ecology, which is a quantitative subdiscipline of community ecology.[1] His brother is the oceanographer Louis Legendre.
Legendre obtained an MSc in zoology from McGill University in 1969, and at age 25, he earned a PhD in biology from the University of Colorado in 1971. From 1971 to 1972, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Lund University. From 1972 to 1980, he was employed at Université du Québec à Montréal. Since 1980, he has worked at Université de Montréal.[1]
As of May 2015, Legendre had published 10 books and almost 300 scientific papers.[1] He has been listed as an ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Ecology/Environment in 2001, 2014, and 2015.[1]
Select awards and honours
- 1986 – Michel-Jurdant Prize (with Louis Legendre), ACFAS
- 1992 – Fellow, Royal Society of Canada
- 1995 – Miroslaw Romanowski Medal, Royal Society of Canada
- 2005 – Prix Marie-Victorin, Government of Quebec
- 2007 – Officer, National Order of Quebec
- 2013 – President's Award, Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution