Pierre Legendre
Pierre Legendre CM FRSC OQ, is an Emeritus professor of ecology at Université de Montréal. He founded the field of Numerical Ecology, which is a quantitative subdiscipline of community ecology, 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 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. He retired from teaching in September 2024 and was appointed Professor Emeritus at Université de Montréal in 2025, where he pursues his research.
Legendre has published 14 books and over 350 scientific papers. in career. He has been listed as a Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher in Ecology/Environment in all lists that were published to this day: in 2001, then from 2014 to 2021.
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 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. He retired from teaching in September 2024 and was appointed Professor Emeritus at Université de Montréal in 2025, where he pursues his research.
Legendre has published 14 books and over 350 scientific papers. in career. He has been listed as a Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher in Ecology/Environment in all lists that were published to this day: in 2001, then from 2014 to 2021.
