the Amazon rainforest

Publications

* co-first authorship

Peer reviewed articles

  • Fernandes A, Poirier AC, Veilleux CC, Melin AD (2024). Contributions and future potential of animal models for geroscience research on sensory systems. GeroScience. DOI: 10.1007/s11357-024-01327-5
  • Poirier AC & Melin AD (2024). Smell throughout the life course. Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews. DOI: 10.1002/evan.22030
  • DePasquale AN, Poirier AC, Mah MA, Villalobos-Suarez C, Guadamuz A, Chevez Hernandez S, Navarro Lopez R, Hogan JD, Rothman JM, Nevo O & Melin AD (2023). Picking pithy plants: pith selectivity by wild white-faced capuchin monkeys, Cebus imitator. American Journal of Primatology. DOI: 10.1002/ajp.23549
  • Poirier AC, Dunn JC, Watsa M, Erkenswick GA, Melin AD, Waterhouse JS & Smith AC (2022). Olfactory communication in tamarins: a comparative analysis of scents from wild and captive tamarin populations. Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research. DOI: 10.19227/jzar.v11i1.652
  • Tang J*, Poirier AC*, Duytschaever G, Moreira LAA, Nevo O & Melin AD (2021). Assessing urinary odours across the oestrous cycle in a mouse model using portable and benchtop gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Royal Society Open Science, 8(9), 210172. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.210172
  • Poirier AC, Waterhouse JS, Dunn JC & Smith AC (2021). Scent marks signal species, sex and reproductive status in tamarins (Saguinus spp., Neotropical primates). Chemical Senses, March, 1-10. DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjab008
  • Poirier AC, Waterhouse JS, Dunn JC & Smith AC (2021). Temporal stability of primate scent samples. SN Applied Sciences, 3(4), 456. DOI: 10.1007/s42452-021-04455-1
  • Poirier AC, Waterhouse, JS, Watsa M, Erkenswick GA, Moreira LAA, Tang J, Dunn JC, Melin AD & Smith AC (2021). On the trail of primate scent signals: field analysis of tamarin scent-gland semiochemistry by portable gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. American Journal of Primatology, 83(3), 1-12. DOI: 10.1002/ajp.23236
  • Souza-Alves JP, Mouthe I, Hilario RR, ..., Poirier AC, ... & Barnett AA (2019). Terrestrial behavior in titi monkeys (Callicebus, Cheracebus and Plecturocebus): Potential correlates, patterns and differences between genera. International Journal of Primatology, 1-20. DOI: 10.1007/s10764-019-00105-x
  • Watsa M, Erkenswick G, Halloran D, Kane EK, Poirier A, Klonoski K, ... & Zuniga A (2015). A Field Protocol for the Capture and Release of Callitrichids. Neotropical Primates, 22(2), 59–68.

Manuscripts in review and in prep

  • Poirier AC, Kulick NK, Romero Morales S, Kücklich M, Weiß BM, Birkemeyer C, Widdig A, Melin AD & Jack KM (2024). Dominance effects on urine washing and urinary odor profiles in wild male capuchin monkeys (Cebus imitator). Submitted to Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.
  • Luzardo AC*, Poirier AC*, Moreira LAA, DePasquale AN, Nguyen LMN, Nevo O & Melin AD. Which fruit traits correlate reliably with sugar content, and does this vary with dispersal syndrome? In prep.

Conference presentations

  • Poirier AC, Kulick NK, Romero Morales S, Kücklich M, Weiß BM, Birkemeyer C, Widdig A, Melin AD & Jack KM. ‘Dominance effects on urine-washing and urinary odour profiles in wild male capuchin monkeys (Cebus imitator)’ (2024). 16th Meeting of the Chemical Signals in Vertebrates group, Frankfurt, Germany. Oral presentation and session chair.
  • Poirier AC. ‘Sniffing out primate scent communication: field techniques’ (2023). Conference “Ecology, Biology, Health and Behavior of White-Faced Capuchins: Celebrating and Promoting Longitudinal Research and Conservation", Costa Rica. Oral presentation and session chair.
  • Poirier AC, Dunn JC, Watsa M, Erkenswick GA, Melin AD, Waterhouse JS & Smith AC. ‘Chemical communication in callitrichids (South American primates): insights from captive and wild populations’ (2023). 52nd meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Leipzig, Germany. Oral presentation.
  • Poirier AC, Luzardo AC & Melin AD. Fruit odor signals and animal-plant coevolution’ (2022). Joint meeting of the International Primatological Society and the Latin American Society of Primatologists, Quito, Ecuador. Oral presentation (virtual).
  • Poirier AC, Dunn JC, Watsa M, Erkenswick GA, Melin AD, Waterhouse JS & Smith AC. Captivity and communication: Comparative analysis of scents from wild and captive tamarins’ (2021). 15th Meeting of the Chemical Signals in Vertebrates group, Dijon, France. Oral presentation (virtual).
  • Poirier AC, Waterhouse, JS, Dunn JC & Smith AC. Sniffing out primate scent communication’ (2018). 9th European Conference on Behavioural Biology, Liverpool, UK. Poster presentation.
  • Poirier AC, Waterhouse, JS, Watsa M, Erkenswick GA, Moreira LAA, Tang J, Dunn JC, Melin AC & Smith AC. Sniffing out primate scent signals: the first field analysis of callitrichine scents by portable GC-MS’ (2018). Primate Society of Great Britain Spring meeting, Portsmouth, UK. Oral presentation.
  • Poirier AC, Waterhouse, JS, Watsa M, Erkenswick GA, Moreira LAA, Tang J, Dunn JC, Melin AC & Smith AC. First field analysis of primate scents using a portable GCMS’ (2017). 14th Meeting of the Chemical Signals in Vertebrates group, Cardiff, UK. Oral presentation.
  • Poirier AC, Waterhouse, JS, Dunn JC & Smith AC. Making sense of scents: deciphering primate olfactory communication (2017). Anglia Ruskin Faculty of Science & Technology research conference, Chelmsford, UK. Poster presentation.