Ahmed Najar

Chemical similarity between historical and novel host plants promotes range and host expansion of the mountain pine beetle in a naïve host ecosystem

Nadir Erbilgin, Cary Ma, Caroline Whitehouse et al. · New Phytologist · 2013 · 145 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Ecology, Entomology +17

Weathering the storm: how lodgepole pine trees survive mountain pine beetle outbreaks

Nadir Erbilgin, Jonathan A. Cale, Altaf Hussain et al. · Oecologia · 2017 · 64 citations

Life Sciences, Ecology, Entomology +14

Variations in foliar monoterpenes across the range of jack pine reveal three widespread chemotypes: implications to host expansion of invasive mountain pine beetle

Spencer Taft, Ahmed Najar, Julie Godbout et al. · Frontiers in Plant Science · 2015 · 63 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Ecology, Entomology +14

Ectomycorrhizal fungi mediate indirect effects of a bark beetle outbreak on secondary chemistry and establishment of pine seedlings

Justine Karst, Nadir Erbilgin, Gregory J. Pec et al. · New Phytologist · 2015 · 58 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Plant Biology, Plant Sciences +17

Water-deficit and fungal infection can differentially affect the production of different classes of defense compounds in two host pines of mountain pine beetle

Nadir Erbilgin, Jonathan A. Cale, Inka Lusebrink et al. · Tree Physiology · 2016 · 44 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Entomology, Plant Sciences +17