Biography

Prof. Nadir Erbilgin

Department of Renewable Resources

University of Alberta, Canada


Email: erbilgin@ualberta.ca


Qualifications

2001  Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

1996  M.Sc., Stephen F. Austin State University, USA

1991  B.Sc., Istanbul University, Turkey


Publications (Selected)

  1. Crandall, L., Zaman, R., Duthie-Holt, M., Jarvis, W., & Erbilgin, N. (2025). Navigating the Semiochemical Landscape: Attraction of Subcortical Beetle Communities to Bark Beetle Pheromones, Fungal and Host Tree Volatiles. Insects, 16(1), 57.
  2. Findlay, S., Zaman, R., Ishangulyyeva, G., Ullah, A., & Erbilgin, N. (2025). Impacts of elevated carbon dioxide on the development and reproductive biology of Choristoneura fumiferana (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). The Canadian Entomologist, 157, e4.
  3. Zaman, R., Shah, A., Ishangulyyeva, G., & Erbilgin, N. (2024). Exploring behavioural and physiological adaptations in mountain pine beetle in response to elevated ozone concentrations. Chemosphere, 362, 142751.
  4. Flaherty, L., Preti, F., Ishangulyyeva, G., Erbilgin, N., Whidden, T., & Evenden, M. (2024). Independent and interactive effects of diet and entomopathogenic microsporidia on an outbreaking forest insect defoliator. Agricultural and Forest Entomology, 26(3), 339-352.
  5. Singh, V. V., Naseer, A., Mogilicherla, K., Trubin, A., Zabihi, K., Roy, A., ... & Erbilgin, N. (2024). Understanding bark beetle outbreaks: exploring the impact of changing temperature regimes, droughts, forest structure, and prospects for future forest pest management. Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/Technology, 23(2), 257-290.
  6. Ghosh, S. K., Ishangulyyeva, G., Erbilgin, N., & Bonello, P. (2024). Terpenoids are involved in the expression of systemic‐induced resistance in Austrian pine. Plant, Cell & Environment, 47(6), 2206-2227.
  7. Marvasti-Zadeh, S. M., Goodsman, D., Ray, N., & Erbilgin, N. (2023). Early detection of bark beetle attack using remote sensing and machine learning: A review. ACM Computing Surveys, 56(4), 1-40.
  8. Kapil, R., Castilla, G., Marvasti-Zadeh, S. M., Goodsman, D., Erbilgin, N., & Ray, N. (2023). Orthomosaicking thermal drone images of forests via simultaneously acquired RGB images. Remote Sensing, 15(10), 2653.
  9. Fernandez, K. X., Pokorny, S., Ishangulyeva, G., Ullah, A., Todorova, S. I., Erbilgin, N., ... & Vederas, J. C. (2023). Beauveria bassiana exhibits strong virulence against Dendroctonus ponderosae in greenhouse and field experiments. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 107(10), 3341-3352.
  10. Zaman, R., May, C., Ullah, A., & Erbilgin, N. (2023). Bark beetles utilize ophiostomatoid fungi to circumvent host tree defenses. Metabolites, 13(2), 239.
  11. Wasyliw, J., Fellrath, E. G., Pec, G. J., Cale, J. A., Franklin, J., Thomasson, C., ... & Karst, J. (2023). Soil inoculation of lodgepole pine seedlings alters root‐associated fungal communities but does not improve seedling performance in beetle‐killed pine stands. Restoration Ecology, 31(1), e13663.
  12. Agbulu, V., Zaman, R., Ishangulyyeva, G., Cahill, J. F., & Erbilgin, N. (2022). Host defense metabolites alter the interactions between a bark beetle and its symbiotic fungi. Microbial ecology, 84(3), 834-843.
  13. Liu, Y., Erbilgin, N., Ratcliffe, B., Klutsch, J. G., Wei, X., Ullah, A., ... & El-Kassaby, Y. A. (2022). Pest defences under weak selection exert a limited influence on the evolution of height growth and drought avoidance in marginal pine populations. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 289(1982), 20221034.
  14. Cappa, E. P., Chen, C., Klutsch, J. G., Sebastian-Azcona, J., Ratcliffe, B., Wei, X., ... & El-Kassaby, Y. A. (2022). Multiple-trait analyses improved the accuracy of genomic prediction and the power of genome-wide association of productivity and climate change-adaptive traits in lodgepole pine. BMC genomics, 23(1), 536.
  15. Kapil, R., Marvasti-Zadeh, S. M., Goodsman, D., Ray, N., & Erbilgin, N. (2022). Classification of bark beetle-induced forest tree mortality using deep learning. arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.07241.
  16. Cappa, E. P., Ratcliffe, B., Chen, C., Thomas, B. R., Liu, Y., Klutsch, J., ... & El-Kassaby, Y. A. (2022). Improving lodgepole pine genomic evaluation using spatial correlation structure and SNP selection with single-step GBLUP. Heredity, 128(4), 209-224.
  17. Ullah, A., Klutsch, J. G., & Erbilgin, N. (2021). Production of complementary defense metabolites reflects a co‐evolutionary arms race between a host plant and a mutualistic bark beetle‐fungal complex. Plant, cell & environment, 44(9), 3064-3077.


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