Journal Paper

1. "Low genetic diversity and future challenges for the Caspian bent-toed gecko (Tenuidactylus caspius) in a changing climate"
   Sarina Saljooghi Mofrad, Somaye Vaissi, Maryam Azimi, Hadi Khoshnamvand, Faraham Ahmadzadeh
   ZOOLOGISCHER ANZEIGER, pp.1-10, 2025
2. "Habitat and connectivity?based conservation strategies for the vulnerable Lorestan newt (Neurergus kaiseri) in the Zagros Mountains, Iran"
   Somaye Vaissi, Alireza Mohammadi
   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT, pp.1-15, 2025
3. "Advanced sperm preservation techniques in yellow spotted mountain newts Neurergus derjugini enhance genetic management and conservation efforts"
   Zeynab Taheri khas, Ahmad GHarzi, Somaye Vaissi, Pouria Heshmatzad, زهرا كلهري
   Scientific Reports, pp.1-14, 2025
4. "The Sixth Mass Extinction and Amphibian Species Sustainability Through Reproduction and Advanced Biotechnologies, Biobanking of Germplasm and Somatic Cells, and Conservation Breeding Programs (RBCs)"
   Robert K. Browne, Qinghua Luo, Pei Wang, Nabil Mansour, Svetlana A. Kaurova, Edith N. Gakhova, Natalia V. Shishova, Victor K. Uteshev, Ludmila I. Kramarova, Govindappa Venu, Mikhail F. Bagaturov, Somaye Vaissi, Pouria Heshmatzad, Peter Janzen, Aleona Swegen, Julie Strand, Dale McGinnity
   Animals, pp.1-36, 2024
5. "Metal nanoparticle-induced effects on green toads (Amphibia, Anura) under climate change: conservation implications"
   Somaye Vaissi, اعظم چهار دولي, Zahra Minoosh Siavosh Haghighi, Pouria Heshmatzad
   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH, pp.1-17, 2024
6. "Ecological Civilisation and Amphibian Sustainability through Reproduction Biotechnologies, Biobanking, and Conservation Breeding Programs (RBCs)"
   Robert K. Browne, Qinghua Luo, Pei Wang, Nabil Mansour, Svetlana A. Kaurova, Edith N. Gakhova, Natalia V. Shishova, Victor K. Uteshev, Ludmila I. Kramarova, Govindappa Venu, Somaye Vaissi, Zeynab Taheri khas, Pouria Heshmatzad, Mikhail F. Bagaturov, Peter Janzen, Renato E. Naranjo, Aleona Swegen, Julie Strand, Dale McGinnity, Ilze Dunce
   Animals, 2024
7. "Phylogenetic climatic niche evolution and diversification of the Neurergus species (Salamandridae) in the Irano-Anatolian biodiversity hotspot"
   Hadi Khoshnamvand, Somaye Vaissi, Maryam Azimi, Faraham Ahmadzadeh
   Ecology and Evolution, pp.1-13, 2024
8. "Hormone-Driven Temperature Optimization for Elevated Reproduction in Goldfish (Carassius auratus) under Laboratory Conditions"
   Zeynab Taheri khas, Ahmad GHarzi, Somaye Vaissi, Pouria Heshmatzad, زهرا كلهري
   Animals, 2024
9. "Climate-driven distribution shifts of Iranian amphibians and identification of refugia and hotspots for effective conservation"
   Somaye Vaissi, Alireza Mohammadi
   Scientific Reports, pp.1-15, 2024
10. "Niche dynamics and climate change sensitivity in western Palearctic Zamenis ratsnakes (Reptilia: Colubridae)"
    Somaye Vaissi, Mehmet Kür?at ?ahin, Muammer Kurnaz
    AMPHIBIA-REPTILIA, pp.1-18, 2024
11. "Ungulates conservation in the face of human development: Mining and roads' influences on habitat and connectivity in Iran's central plateau"
    Alireza Mohammadi, Kamran Almasieh, Somaye Vaissi
    Ecological Informatics, 2024
12. "Niche evolution and diversification in Middle Eastern stream salamanders (Paradactylodon): vulnerability to future climate change"
    Somaye Vaissi, Pouria Heshmatzad, Axel Hernandez
    AMPHIBIA-REPTILIA, pp.1-15, 2023
13. "Climatic Niche Divergence and Conservatism Promote Speciation in Snake-Eyed Skinks (Sauria: Scincidae): New Insight into the Evolution and Diversification of Ablepharus Species"
    Somaye Vaissi, Muammer Kurnaz, Mehmet Kürsat sahin, Axel Hernandez
    Evolutionary Biology, pp.1-15, 2023
14. "Marsh frog response to urea fertilizer during the embryonic, larval, and metamorphosis stages: a new perspective into urea toxicity on amphibians"
    Behnam Borumand-Fumany, Somaye Vaissi, Hossein Javanbakht, Zahra Minoosh Siavosh Haghighi
    ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH, pp.92581-92593, 2023
15. "Climatic niche dynamics in the invasive nutria, Myocastor coypus: global assessment under climate change"
    Somaye Vaissi, Sahar Rezaei
    BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS, pp.1-12, 2023
16. "First report of epibiont communities on narrow-clawed crayfish, Astacus leptodactylus Eschscholtz, 1823 (Decapoda: Astacidae) from Shiyan Dam reservoir, western Iran"
    Pouria Heshmatzad, Somaye Vaissi
    Journal of Wildlife and Biodiversity, pp.1-16, 2023
17. "Evaluation of the effect of ecological factors on cannibalism in Pelophylax bedriagae (Pallas, 1771) (Amphibia: Anura)"
    Fateme Amjadyan, Somaeah Esmaeeili Rineh, Somaye Vaissi
    Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics, 2023
18. "Diversity, diversification and distribution of Iranian vertebrates: the legacy of mountains uplifting, past climatic oscillations, sea level fluctuations and geographical barriers"
    Masoud Yousefi, Ahmad Mahmoudi, Somaye Vaissi, Anooshe Kafash
    BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION, pp.1-31, 2022
19. "Response of Iranian lizards to future climate change by poleward expansion, southern contraction, and elevation shifts"
    Somaye Vaissi
    Scientific Reports, pp.1-21, 2022
20. "The role of climatic niche divergence in the speciation of the genus Neurergus: An inter-and intraspecific survey"
    Somaye Vaissi
    EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY, pp.1-19, 2022
21. "Niche Divergence at Intraspecific Level in the Hyrcanian Wood Frog, Rana pseudodalmatina: A Phylogenetic, Climatic, and Environmental Survey"
    Somaye Vaissi, Sahar Rezaei
    Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, pp.1-12, 2022
22. "Tracking climate change in the spatial distribution pattern and the phylogeographic structure of Hyrcanian wood frog, Rana pseudodalmatina (Anura: Ranidae)"
    Negar Amiri, Somaye Vaissi, Fateme Aghamir, Reihaneh Saberi-Pirooz, Dennis Rodder, Elham Ebrahimi, Faraham Ahmadzadeh
    JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH, pp.1-16, 2021
23. "Dynamics of threatened mammalian distribution in Iran's protected areas under climate change"
    Elham Ebrahimi, Romina Sayahnia, Yasaman Ranjbaran, Somaye Vaissi, Faraham Ahmadzadeh
    MAMMALIAN BIOLOGY, pp.1-16, 2021
24. "The least-cost path analysis of landscape genetics identifies two dispersal routes for the threatened Kaiser's mountain newt (Caudata: Salamandridae)"
    Somaye Vaissi, Mozafar SHarifi
    JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH, pp.1-12, 2021
25. "Potential changes in the distributions of Near Eastern fire salamander (Salamandra infraimmaculata) in response to historical, recent and future climate change in the Near and Middle East: Implication for conservation and management"
    Somaye Vaissi
    Global Ecology and Conservation, 2021
26. "Historic range dynamics in Kaiser's mountain newt (Neurergus kaiseri): Insights from phylogeographic analyses and species distribution modeling"
    Somaye Vaissi
    Ecology and Evolution, pp.1-12, 2021
27. "First Report on Karyolysus sp. Apicomplexa: Adeleorina) from Green Bellied Lizard Darevskia chlorogaster in the North of Iran"
    Esmail Noghanchi, Hossein Javanbakht, Somaye Vaissi
    Journal of Genetic Resources, pp.158-164, 2021
28. "Interactions Between Ecological Factors in the Development and Survival of Bufotes variabilis: Resilience to Change"
    Mahsa Najafi, Somaeah Esmaeeili Rineh, Somaye Vaissi
    Iranian Journal of Science and Technology Transaction A-Science, pp.1-9, 2021
29. "Design of Protected Area by Tracking and Excluding the Effects of Climate and Landscape Change: A Case Study Using Neurergus derjugini"
    Somaye Vaissi
    Sustainability(Switzerland), 2021
30. "Incorporating habitat suitability and demographic data for developing a reintroduction plan for the critically endangered yellow spotted mountain newt, Neurergus derjugini- مستخرج از رساله دكتري"
    Somaye Vaissi
    HERPETOLOGICAL JOURNAL, pp.282-294, 2019
31. "Ontogenetic changes in spot configuration (numbers, circularity, size and asymmetry) and lateral line in Neurergus microspilotus (Caudata: Salamandridae)"
    Somaye Vaissi
    ACTA ZOOLOGICA, pp.9-19, 2018
32. "Intraerythrocytic rickettsial inclusions in endangered Kaiser's mountain newt, Neurergus kaiseri(Caudata: Salamandridae)"
    Somaye Vaissi
    JOURNAL OF APPLIED ANIMAL RESEARCH, pp.505-507, 2017
33. "Changes in food availability mediate the effects of temperature on growth, metamorphosis and survival in endangered yellow spotted mountain newt: implications for captive breeding programs"
    Somaye Vaissi
    BIOLOGIA, pp.444-451, 2016
34. "Variation in food availability mediate the impact of density on cannibalism, growth, and survival in larval yellow spotted mountain newts (Neurergus microspilotus): Implications for captive breeding programs"
    Somaye Vaissi
    ZOO BIOLOGY, pp.513-521, 2016
35. "Captive breeding and trial reintroduction of the Endangered yellow-spotted mountain newt Neurergus microspilotus in western Iran- مستخرج از رساله دكتري"
    Somaye Vaissi
    Endangered Species Research, pp.159-166, 2014