Pierre Legendre (ecologist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Pierre Legendre (ecologist)

Canadian biologist

Date of Birth: 05-Oct-1946

Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Profession: ecologist

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Pierre Legendre , FRSC, 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, 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.
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 2019 .
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.