Fig 1.
Study area and sample collection points.
All the sampling locations are marked using red dots.
Fig 2.
Percentage of presence of each plant family that was identified through analysis of pollen of 94 honey samples.
Fig 3.
A. Some pollen images of the Asteraceae family. B. Some pollen images of the Rosaceae family. C. Some pollen images of the Fabaceae family. D. some pollen images of the Apocynaceae family.
Table 1.
Pollen types of 94 honey samples in this study.
Fig 4.
Number of samplings performed at different altitude intervals.
Fig 5.
The antioxidant activity abundance ratio of honey samples.
Fig 6.
Comparison of antioxidant activities with altitude.
Fig 7.
pH abundance ratio of the samples.
Fig 8.
Regression related to the effect of environmental humidity on the moisture of honey samples.
Table 2.
Relative eigenvalue, percentage of variance, and vector values of principal component analysis (PCA) using total phenolic content, antioxidant activity, pH, and moisture content of the studied honey samples.
Fig 9.
Principal component analysis (PCA) scatter plot of the studied honey samples based on total phenolic content, antioxidant activity, pH, and moisture content.
Fig 10.
Dendrogram of the studied honey samples according to their botanical family composition and clustered by UPGMA (unweighted pair group method using Euclidean distance).
Cophenetic correlation coefficient = 0.8565.