Site climate more than soil properties and topography shape the natural arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in maize and spore density within rainfed maize (Zea mays L.) cropland in the eastern DR Congo

• Adrien Byamungu Ndeko ,

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

  * E-mail: ndeko.byam@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Crop Production, Faculty of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Université Evangélique en Afrique (UEA), Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Département de Biologie Végétale, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Université Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD), Dakar, Senegal, Laboratoire Commun de Microbiologie (LCM) IRD/ISRA/UCAD, Centre de Recherche de Bel Air, Dakar, Senegal

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6369-1468

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• Abdala Gamby Diedhiou,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Département de Biologie Végétale, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Université Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD), Dakar, Senegal, Laboratoire Commun de Microbiologie (LCM) IRD/ISRA/UCAD, Centre de Recherche de Bel Air, Dakar, Senegal

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• Hassna Founoune-Mboup,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Laboratoire Commun de Microbiologie (LCM) IRD/ISRA/UCAD, Centre de Recherche de Bel Air, Dakar, Senegal, ISRA_LNRPV, Laboratoire National de Recherches sur les Productions Végétales (LNRPV), Dakar, Senegal

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• Géant Basimine Chuma,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Crop Production, Faculty of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Université Evangélique en Afrique (UEA), Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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• Yannick Mugumaarhahama,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliations Department of Crop Production, Faculty of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Université Evangélique en Afrique (UEA), Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Unit of Applied Biostatistics, Faculty of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Université Evangélique en Afrique, Bukavu, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo

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• Diegane Diouf,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Département de Biologie Végétale, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Université Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD), Dakar, Senegal, Laboratoire Commun de Microbiologie (LCM) IRD/ISRA/UCAD, Centre de Recherche de Bel Air, Dakar, Senegal

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• Saliou Fall,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Laboratoire Commun de Microbiologie (LCM) IRD/ISRA/UCAD, Centre de Recherche de Bel Air, Dakar, Senegal, ISRA_LNRPV, Laboratoire National de Recherches sur les Productions Végétales (LNRPV), Dakar, Senegal

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• Gustave Nachigera Mushagalusa,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Crop Production, Faculty of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Université Evangélique en Afrique (UEA), Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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• Aboubacry Kane

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Département de Biologie Végétale, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Université Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD), Dakar, Senegal, Laboratoire Commun de Microbiologie (LCM) IRD/ISRA/UCAD, Centre de Recherche de Bel Air, Dakar, Senegal

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