Pierre Legendre (ecologist)

Pierre Legendre
CM FRSC OQ
Born (1946-10-05) 5 October 1946
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Alma mater
Scientific career
Fields
Workplaces
ThesisSome formal aspects of the theory of biological evolution (1971)
Askell Löve
Notable students
Marie-Josée Fortin
Websitenumericalecology.com/indexEn.html

Pierre Legendre CM FRSC OQ (born 5 October 1946), is an emeritus professor of ecology at Université de Montréal.[1] He founded the field of numerical ecology, which is a quantitative subdiscipline of community ecology,[2] with his brother the oceanographer Louis Legendre.

Pierre Legendre obtained an MSc in zoology from McGill University in 1969, and at age 24, he earned a PhD in evolutionary biology from the University of Colorado Boulder in 1971. From 1971 to 1972, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Lund University in Sweden. From 1972 to 1980, he was research associate, then research director in an environmental science research centre at Université du Québec à Montréal. Since 1980, he has been professor of quantitative ecology in the department of biological sciences at Université de Montréal[3]. He retired from teaching in September 2024 and was appointed professor emeritus at Université de Montréal in 2025.[4]

Scientific prizes

Other distinctions

  • 1992 – Royal Society of Canada, Academy of Science [11]
  • 2007 – National Order of Québec[12]
  • 2021 – Order of Canada [13]

References

  1. ↑ "Pierre Legendre". Département de sciences biologiques – Université de Montréal (in French). Retrieved 15 November 2025.
  2. ↑ Legendre, Pierre (2019). "Numerical Ecology". In Fath, Brian (ed.). Encyclopedia of Ecology. Vol. 3 (2nd ed.). Elsevier. pp. 487–493. ISBN 9780444641304.
  3. ↑ "Pierre Legendre". ORCID. Retrieved 15 November 2025.
  4. ↑ "Pierre Legendre". La recherche – Université de Montréal (in French). Retrieved 15 November 2025.
  5. ↑ "Prix Acfas Michel-Jurdant". Acfas (in French). Retrieved 23 October 2019.
  6. ↑ "Past awards winners". Royal Society of Canada. Retrieved 2 November 2025.
  7. ↑ "Pierre Legendre, lauréat". Prix du Québec (in French). Retrieved 2 November 2025.
  8. ↑ "Awards and Bursaries". CSEE: Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution. Retrieved 2 November 2025.
  9. ↑ "Prix Acfas Adrien-Pouliot". Acfas (in French).
  10. ↑ "Alexander von Humboldt Medal". International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS). Retrieved 2 November 2025.
  11. ↑ "Find Members". Royal Society of Canada. Retrieved 12 January 2026.
  12. ↑ "Pierre Legendre". Ordre national du Québec (in French). Retrieved 15 November 2025.
  13. ↑ "La gouverneure générale annonce 135 nouvelles nominations au sein de l'Ordre du Canada" [The Governor General announces 135 new appointments to the Order of Canada]. La gouverneure générale du Canada (in French). 29 December 2021. Retrieved 15 November 2025.
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