Most important factor for explaining FST (Q3)
Of all of the factors that we analyzed, latitudinal region explained the highest percent variation (7%), higher than the life history traits in model 7 (0.9–6%, Fig 1f). Of the life history traits, mating system and pollination mode had the highest independent contribution to the variation in FST values (6% each), followed by growth form (4%), while the contribution of dispersal mode was very low (0.9%) and not statistically significant (Fig. 1f).