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Joshua trees ( Yucca brevifolia ) in Lee Canyon at the foot of the Spring Mountains (Las Vegas, USA). These iconic plants are often perceived to be everlasting landscape features, but should be considered as exceptional ecosystem entities because new reproductive generations are infrequently incorporated into existing populations – a neglected feature of these and other long‐lived plant species that should be accounted for in nature conservation. Find out more in Schweiger et al.'s article “Dynamic management needs for long‐lived, sporadically recruiting plant species in human‐dominated landscapes” in this issue. Image courtesy of Andreas H. Schweiger.