Pierre Legendre (born 5 October 1946), is a professor of ecology at

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. He is the founder of Numerical Ecology, which is a quantitative subdiscipline of

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in 1969, and at age 24, he earned a PhD in evolutionary biology from the

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in 1971. From 1971 to 1972, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at

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. From 1972 to 1980, he was employed at

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. Since 1980, he is professor in the Département de sciences biologiques of

. As of October 2021, Legendre had published 12 books and over 340 scientific papers. He has been listed as a Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher in Ecology/Environment in all lists that have been published to this day: in 2001, then from 2014 to 2021. His Hirsch index (h) is 80 on Web of Knowledge, which does not count the citations of his books, and 114 on Google Scholar, which includes these citations. By the number of citations, he is the most cited author of ecology journals such as

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Scientific prizes

* 1986 – Michel-Jurdant Prize (with Louis Legendre), Acfas * 1994 – Distinguished Statistical Ecologist Award, International Congress of Ecology * 1995 – Miroslaw Romanowski Medal, Royal Society of Canada * 1999 – Twentieth Century Distinguished Service Award, Ninth Lukacs Symposium, Bowling Green State University, US * 2005 –

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, Government of Québec * 2013 – President's Award, Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution * 2015 – Adrien-Poulliot Award, Acfas * 2019 – Alexander von Humboldt Medal, International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS)

Teaching prizes

* 2011 – Excellence in Teaching Award, Université de Montréal * 2011 – Excellence in Teaching Award, Faculty of Arts and Science, Université de Montréal

Other distinctions

* 1989 – Killam Research Fellow, Canada Council for the Arts * 1992 – Elected Fellow, Royal Society of Canada * 2007 – Officer of the National Order of Québec, Government of Québec * 2016 – Corresponding Member, Academia Mexicana de Ciencias * 2019 – Honorary Member, Sociedad Ibérica de Ecología * 2001 – ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Ecology/Environment awarded by the Institute for Scientific Information, US * 2014 to 2021 – Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher in Environment/Ecology awarded by Thomson Reuters, then by Clarivate Analytics, US

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*, Département de sciences biologiques, Université de Montréal Living people 1946 births Canadian ecologists University of Colorado alumni McGill University Faculty of Science alumni Academic staff of the Université de Montréal Academic staff of the Université du Québec à Montréal Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada Officers of the National Order of Quebec Members of the Mexican Academy of Sciences Members of the Order of Canada {{Canada-scientist-stub