Figure 1.
Location detail and mosaic vegetation of study areas.
A. South India with state boundaries, B. First three locations in site 1 with surrounding vegetation C. Fourth location in site 2 with surrounding vegetation.
Figure 2.
Pollen diagram showing the percentages of the main taxa and the total pollen sum (f = February; m = May; a = August; n = November; 07 = 2007; 08 = 2008; 09 = 2009).
Figure 3.
Photomicrographs showing the 14 predominant pollen types i.e., uni-floral origin (a single pollen type represented >45% of total observed pollen types in a sample) in the 42 honey samples arranged ascending order of family: A–B Lannea; C–D Mollugo; E–F Borassus; G–H Cocos; I–J Phoenix; K–L Delonix/Peltophorum; M–N Evolvulus; O–P Compositae-echinate; Q–R Securinega; S–T Acacia; U–V Mimosa pudica; W–X Rhamnaceae; Y–Z Atalantia; A1–B1 Dodonaea.
Table 1.
MANOVA table for binary Bray-Curtis' distance.
Table 2.
MANOVA table for Bray-Curtis' distances. df, SSQ, MSQ stand for degrees of freedom, sum of squares, mean squares.
Figure 4.
Pair-wise comparison of qualitative and quantitative melissopalynology for pollen similarity studies.
Figure 5.
Multivariate analyses (PCA) showing the structure of pollen spectra in reduced dimensionality of absolute pollen frequency.
A = Month-wise, B = Year-wise, C = Location-wise, and D = Percentage of Eigen value and overall variance distribution.
Figure 6.
Multivariate analyses (LDA) showing the group membership of honey with reference to spatio-temporal factor and discriminant coefficient value of individual pollen type.
For Month and Location, the third LD axis did not bring major between-groups differences; therefore only the first two axes have been retained.