Table 2 Matrix of paired comparison of 10 of the most salient bee forage species
Species | Key informants | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | R7 | R8 | R9 | R10 | R11 | R12 | R13 | R14 | Score | Rank | |
Dombeya torrida | 8 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 119 | 1 |
Erica arborea | 9 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 119 | 1 |
Olinia rochetiana | 6 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 79 | 3 |
Ekebergia capensis | 7 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 63 | 4 |
Vernonia rueppellii | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 56 | 5 |
Hagenia abyssinica | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 46 | 6 |
Myrsine melanophloeos | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 43 | 7 |
Hypericum revolutum | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 42 | 8 |
Apodytes dimidiata | 2 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 38 | 9 |
Myrica salicifolia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 22 | 10 |