“…Because the bulk of Pinyon Jay populations occupy pinyon-juniper woodlands, and due to strong, bird–woodland mutualism, we focus our review primarily on (1) studies within the southwestern U.S. and Nevada where both Pinyon Jays and pinyon are distributed and (2) studies employing forest or vegetation characteristics. For example, while Quintana Chávez et al (2018) built a range-wide Pinyon Jay distribution model to assess potential occurrence in northern Mexico, they did not include vegetation predictors.…”