Residence Montreal Known for Numerical ecology Field Community | Citizenship Canadian Alma mater McGill University | |
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Born 5 October 1946 (age 70)
Montreal, Canada ( 1946-10-05 ) Fields Numerical ecology
Community ecology
Landscape genetics
Statistics Books Developments in Numerical Ecology Institutions Université de Montréal, Université du Québec à Montréal | ||
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. 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.
As of May 2015, Legendre had published 10 books and almost 300 scientific papers. He has been listed as an ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Ecology/Environment in 2001, 2014, and 2015.