Ecology and evolution of stingless bee honey
Beyond the geographical origin, our analysis of variation partition in SBH composition showed that ecological and evolutionary drivers and their joint effects were all explaining at least in part, the differences in honey characteristics (Fig. 4). The importance of each type of drivers varied according to the spatial scale, with a greater role of the joint effect of ecology and bee phylogeny at the global and Afrotropical level whereas it was non-significant in IPA region and in the Neotropics. Overall, 40 to 60% of the variation remained unexplained.