The study of biodiversity started as a single unified field that spanned both ecology and evolution and both macro and micro phenomena. But over the 20th century, major trends drove ecology and evolution apart and pushed an emphasis towards the micro perspective in both disciplines. Macroecology and macroevolution re‐emerged as self‐consciously distinct fields in the 1970s and 1980s, but they remain largely separated from each other. Here, we argue that despite the challenges, it is worth working to combine macroecology and macroevolution. We present 25 fundamental questions about biodiversity that are answerable only with a mixture of the views and tools of both macroecology and macroevolution.

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统一宏观生态学和宏观进化以回答有关生物多样性的基本问题

生物多样性的研究始于一个单一的统一领域，涵盖生态和进化以及宏观和微观现象。但在 20 世纪，主要趋势将生态学和进化分开，并推动了这两个学科的微观视角的重视。宏观生态学和宏观进化在 1970 年代和 1980 年代作为自觉不同的领域重新出现，但它们在很大程度上仍然相互分离。在这里，我们认为，尽管存在挑战，但将宏观生态学和宏观进化结合起来还是值得的。我们提出了 25 个关于生物多样性的基本问题，这些问题只能用宏观生态学和宏观进化的观点和工具的混合来回答。