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Journal of Ethonbiology 36.1: 192-214, 2016

This study presents results of interdisciplinary fieldwork in Southwest China by a team of lingui... more This study presents results of interdisciplinary fieldwork in Southwest China by a team of linguists and ethnobotanists. It is based on a comparative analysis of 70 common plant names in five Tibeto-Burman languages spoken in Shuiluo Valley. The discussion focuses on (a) names for locally important field crops and (b) plant names that are shared between two or more languages. We make a preliminary stratification of cognates and loanwords, we advance hypotheses about the sources of loanwords, and we assess the distribution of loanwords against the background of the existing historical and linguistic accounts of the studied languages. The observed patterns shed light on the complex migration history in the area and identify a group of plant names which may originate in a linguistic variety which was once (or still is) native to Shuiluo.
本文对中国西南地区的四川省木里藏族自治县水洛乡的五个藏缅语族语言中70种常见植物的名称进行比较研究，是由一队语言学家和民族植物学家共同参与的跨学科田野调查的结果。本文讨论集中在：（1）当地主要作物的名称；（2）两种或两种以上的语言中形式与意义都相同的植物名称。我们对这两类植物名称进行初步的同源词和借词的划分，提出一些假设来解释借词的来源，并结合关于当地族群及其语言的历史背景情况来分析借词的分布规律。本研究结果不但阐明了水洛河谷地区复杂的人口迁移历史，而且辨明了一组当地独特的植物名称——这些植物名称可能源自于该地区曾经或者依旧存在的语言。

Society & Natural Resources, 2014

Novon: A Journal for Botanical Nomenclature, 2009

Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2003

Sexual conflict can elevate mating costs via male inflicted damage to females. Possible selective... more Sexual conflict can elevate mating costs via male inflicted damage to females. Possible selective advantages to males include decreasing the likelihood that females remate and/or increasing females' current reproductive investment in a manner analogous to terminal reproductive investment. We investigated female mating behaviour relative to their number of previous copulations in the fly Sepsis cynipsea, and whether males accepted as first mates were more likely to be accepted again. Females were more likely to remate with new rather than original males, although there was no associated fitness benefit, and in contrast to theoretical predictions, females became less reluctant to remate as the number of previous copulations increased. Additionally, females did not increase reproductive investment as would be expected if they were ensuring their final reproductive efforts were maximized by remating. This suggests that damaging females is a pleiotropic effect which inadvertently leads to increased, not decreased, polyandry.