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.