Research Article

Linking Measure of the Tropical Stingless Bee (Apidae, Meliponini, and Heterotrigona itama) Honey Quality with Hives Distance to the Source of Heavy Metal Pollution in Urban and Industrial Areas in Sabah, Borneo

Table 3

Contribution of different environmental variables to the two factor scores in the PCA analysis.

VariableWeighting
Factor 1Factor 2

Type of vegetation0.610.55
Temperature0.460.85
Relative hHumidityāˆ’0.0330.85
Distance of hives from the main road0.780.41
Distance of hives from the factory0.970.21
Distance of hives from the coal power plant0.990.06
Distance of hives from the town0.84āˆ’0.06

Note. Variables contributing most to each principal component (>0.60) are highlighted in bold.