Century‐long trends in plant diversity of temperate mountain vegetation are modulated along elevation gradient

Abstract Understanding how multiple global change drivers interact to shape forest plant communities requires a long‐term perspective that extends beyond the last few decades. Mountain forests, with their strong climatic and management gradients, enable the assessment of how global and local drivers jointly shape long‐term plant diversity patterns. Our objective was to detect trends in taxonomic diversity and species distributions along the elevational gradient in response to three main drivers