Pierre Legendre (ecologist)
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Pierre Legendre | |
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| Born | 5 October 1946 Montreal, Canada |
| Citizenship | Canadian |
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| Known for | Numerical ecology |
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| Thesis | Some formal aspects of the theory of biological evolution (1971) |
| Notable students | Marie-Josée Fortin |
| Website | adn |
Pierre Legendre , FRSC, OQ (born 5 October 1946), is a professor of ecology at Université de Montréal. He is the founder of , which is a quantitative subdiscipline of community ecology,[1] 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 worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Lund University. From 1972 to 1980, he was employed at Université du Québec à Montréal. Since 1980, he is professor in the Département de sciences biologiques of Université de Montréal.
As of October 2019, Legendre had published 11 books and over 330 scientific papers.[1] 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 2020.[1] His Hirsch index (h) is 76 on Web of Knowledge, which does not count the citations of his books, and 106 on Google Scholar, which includes these citations.
Scientific prizes[]
- 1986 – (with Louis Legendre), Acfas[2]
- 1994 – , International Congress of Ecology
- 1995 – Miroslaw Romanowski Medal, Royal Society of Canada
- 1999 – , Ninth Lukacs Symposium, Bowling Green State University, USA
- 2005 – Prix Marie-Victorin, Government of Québec
- 2013 – President's Award, Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution
- 2015 – , Acfas[3]
- 2019 – Alexander von Humboldt Medal, International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS)
Teaching prizes[]
- 2011 – , Université de Montréal
- 2011 – , Faculty of Arts and Science, Université de Montréal
Other distinctions[]
- 1989 – , Canada Council for the Arts
- 1992 – , Royal Society of Canada
- 2007 – , Government of Québec
- 2016 – Corresponding Member, Academia Mexicana de Ciencias
- 2019 – , Sociedad Ibérica de Ecología
- 2001 – awarded by the Institute for Scientific Information, USA
- 2014 to 2020 – awarded by Thomson Reuters, then by Clarivate Analytics, USA
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c CV
- ^ Acfas. "Acfas – Association francophone pour le savoir". Retrieved 23 October 2019.
- ^ Acfas. "Acfas – Association francophone pour le savoir".
External links[]
- Official website, Département de sciences biologiques, Université de Montréal
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- Officers of the National Order of Quebec
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