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Image Title: Typical habitat for the rare species, Arabis fecunda
Image Credit: Matthew B. Hamilton, University of Chicago
AJB Editor: Nels R. Lersten, Iowa State University
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Copyright held by: Matthew B. Hamilton, BSA
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The Bitterroot Valley of western Montana, showing a typical habitat for the rare species, Arabis fecunda: dry and rocky with erodible, sparsely vegetated slopes. This species has a mixed mating system and exhibits inbreeding depression, attributes of reproductive biology that may complicate efforts to preserve its populations.

Link to the AJB Abstract for the article:

The mating system and relative performance of selfed and outcrossed progency in Arabis fecunda (Brassicaceae)

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