Diversity and structure of prokaryotic communities within organic and conventional farming systems in central highlands of Kenya

• Edward Nderitu Karanja,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biological sciences, University of Embu, Embu, Kenya, International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Andreas Fliessbach,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Institute of Organic Agriculture, Frick, Switzerland

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• Noah Adamtey,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Institute of Organic Agriculture, Frick, Switzerland

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• Anne Kelly Kambura,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Taita Taveta University, School of Agriculture, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Voi, Kenya

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• Martha Musyoka,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Komi Fiaboe,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Cameroon, Yaoundé, Cameroon

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• Romano Mwirichia

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mwirichia.romano@embuni.ac.ke

  Affiliation Department of Biological sciences, University of Embu, Embu, Kenya

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4198-5593

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