Macro2020 is the 14th annual meeting of the specialist group Macroecology of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (GfÖ) and was held in Konstanz, Germany on 2nd-5th March. It was a small and cosy meeting with ~50 people. Aurèle presented his work on the global functional spectra of plants and vertebrates and Meelis talked about the first results of our global DarkDivNet network.