Honey pollen: using melissopalynology to understand foraging preferences of bees in tropical South India.

ABSTRACT: The aim of the study was to use melissopalynology to delineate the foraging preferences of bees in tropical environs. This was done by comparing pollen spectra obtained from the same hives every three months for three years at four sampling locations (in two sites) within a confined landscape mosaic. If melissopalynology is highly replicable, the spatial variation of the pollen spectrum from the honey samples would be much more than the temporal (inter-annual) variations. In other words, given the three factors, Month, Year and Location, honey pollen from different Locations, in a given Year and Month, would be much less similar than samples from different Years, in a given Location and Month. We then determined how the factors, Month, Year and Location, influenced the pollen influx of hon

SUBMITTER: Ponnuchamy R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4086892 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature