Organized on March 23 by Antoine Guisan at the 2018 Conference of the International Biogeography Society (IBS) in Evora, Portugal. Thanks to the speakers – Jennifer Sunday, Ana Csergo, Gurutzeta Guillera-Aroita, Phoebe Zarnetske, Frédéric Guillaume & Laura Pollock - for their enlightening talks on very diverse and complementary future aspects of SDMs. The women unbalance got nicely noticed! See our twitter account @ecospat_ch. Thanks to the IBS2018 organizers, and especially Miguel Matias for supporting this symposium.