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Pierre Legendre

Pierre Legendre

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Ecology and Evolution
Canada
2025

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
110
Citations
138400
World Ranking
169
National Ranking
13

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Canada Leader Award

Overview

Pierre Legendre is affiliated with the University of Montreal in Canada and has a research focus spanning Environmental Science and Medicine. Their body of work includes numerous contributions to subfields such as Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Molecular Biology, and Infectious Diseases.

The researcher has explored multiple key topics, including:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Diabetes Management and Education

Pierre Legendre has published articles in several frequent venues such as:

  • Ecological Indicators
  • Oikos
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Journal of Vegetation Science

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Moderate disturbances accelerate forest transition dynamics under climate change in the temperate-boreal ecotone of eastern North America" (2020) published in Global Change Biology
  • "Horizontal gene transfer and recombination analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genes helps discover its close relatives and shed light on its origin" (2021) published in BMC Ecology and Evolution
  • "Does diversity beget diversity in microbiomes?" (2020) published in eLife
  • "Hierarchical Clustering with Contiguity Constraint in R" (2022) published in Journal of Statistical Software
  • "What do beta diversity components reveal from presence-absence community data? Let us connect every indicator to an indicandum!" (2020) published in Ecological Indicators

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated multiple times with Pierre Legendre include:

  • Guillaume Guénard
  • L. Radoszycki
  • Apolline Adé
  • Frédérique Debroucker
  • Laura Delporte

In addition to journal publications, Pierre Legendre has contributed to book publications, including "L'écologie numérique en R," slated for release in 2025 by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

Best Publications

  • vegan: Community Ecology Package

    Jari Oksanen;F. Guillaume Blanchet;Roeland Kindt;Pierre Legendre

  • Complex ecological data sets

    Pierre Legendre;Pierre Legendre;Louis Legendre;Louis Legendre

  • SPECIES ASSEMBLAGES AND INDICATOR SPECIES:THE NEED FOR A FLEXIBLE ASYMMETRICAL APPROACH

    Marc Dufrêne;Pierre Legendre

  • Ecologically meaningful transformations for ordination of species data

    Pierre Legendre;Eugene D. Gallagher

  • Partialling out the spatial component of ecological variation

    Daniel Borcard;Pierre Legendre;Pierre Drapeau

  • Spatial Autocorrelation: Trouble or New Paradigm?

    Pierre Legendre

  • A distance-based framework for measuring functional diversity from multiple traits

    Etienne Laliberté;Pierre Legendre

  • Numerical Ecology with R

    Daniel Borcard;François Gillet;Pierre Legendre

  • Associations between species and groups of sites: indices and statistical inference

    Miquel De Cáceres;Pierre Legendre

  • Spatial pattern and ecological analysis

    Pierre Legendre;Marie Josée Fortin

  • DISTANCE‐BASED REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS: TESTING MULTISPECIES RESPONSES IN MULTIFACTORIAL ECOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS

    Pierre Legendre;Marti J. Anderson

  • VARIATION PARTITIONING OF SPECIES DATA MATRICES: ESTIMATION AND COMPARISON OF FRACTIONS

    Pedro R. Peres-Neto;Pierre Legendre;Stéphane Dray;Daniel Borcard

  • FORWARD SELECTION OF EXPLANATORY VARIABLES

    F. Guillaume Blanchet;Pierre Legendre;Daniel Borcard

  • All-scale spatial analysis of ecological data by means of principal coordinates of neighbour matrices

    Daniel Borcard;Pierre Legendre

  • Spatial modelling: a comprehensive framework for principal coordinate analysis of neighbour matrices (PCNM)

    Stéphane Dray;Pierre Legendre;Pedro R. Peres-Neto;Pedro R. Peres-Neto

  • Numerical Ecology: Second English Edition

    Pierre Legendre;Louis Legendre

  • Numerical Ecology

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  • ANALYZING BETA DIVERSITY: PARTITIONING THE SPATIAL VARIATION OF COMMUNITY COMPOSITION DATA

    Pierre Legendre;Daniel Borcard;Pedro R. Peres-Neto

  • Improving indicator species analysis by combining groups of sites

    Miquel De Cáceres;Pierre Legendre;Marco Moretti

  • Beta diversity as the variance of community data: dissimilarity coefficients and partitioning.

    Pierre Legendre;Miquel De Cáceres

  • Numerical Ecology with R. Second Edition

    Daniel Borcard;François Gillet;Pierre Legendre

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel Borcard
Daniel Borcard University of Montreal
Marie-Josée Fortin
Marie-Josée Fortin University of Toronto
Miquel De Cáceres
Miquel De Cáceres Autonomous University of Barcelona
Vladimir Makarenkov
Vladimir Makarenkov University of Quebec at Montreal
Fangliang He
Fangliang He University of Alberta
Pedro R. Peres-Neto
Pedro R. Peres-Neto Concordia University
Stéphane Dray
Stéphane Dray Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Simon F. Thrush
Simon F. Thrush University of Auckland
Richard Condit
Richard Condit Independent Scientist / Consultant, US
Jozée Sarrazin
Jozée Sarrazin University of Western Brittany

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