Oskar Franklin
Senior Research Scholar
Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services Research Group
Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program
Biography
Oskar Franklin joined the former IIASA Forestry Program in June 2004, where he developed large-scale models for the prediction of forest production in response to management options. He is currently associated with the Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services Research Group of the Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Program. Recently, he worked on ecosystem theory and models of boreal forests as well as wildlife management under climate change. He also led an international working group on the development of a new generation of vegetation models that takes advantage of ecological and evolutionary principles to better constrain the predicted consequences of climate change.Franklin received his PhD in systems ecology at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala in 2003. His work involved optimal plant theory and forest growth responses to nitrogen and carbon dioxide. Prior to becoming involved in ecology, he earned an MSc degree in physics engineering at Uppsala University, and worked at the Swedish Radiation Protection Institute with nuclear power emissions and environmental effects.
Last update: 20 FEB 2023
Publications
Leduc, S., Lundgren, J., Franklin, O. , & Dotzauer, E. (2010). Location of a biomass based methanol production plant: A dynamic problem in northern Sweden. Applied Energy 87 (1) 68-75. 10.1016/j.apenergy.2009.02.009.
Franklin, O. , Aoki, K., & Seidl, R. (2009). A generic model of thinning and stand density effects on forest growth, mortality and net increment. Annals of Forest Science 66 (8) 815.-1. 10.1051/forest/2009073.
Dewar, R.C., Franklin, O. , Maekelae, A., McMurtrie, R.E., & Valentine, H.T. (2009). Optimal function explains forest responses to global change. BioScience 59 (2) 127-139. 10.1525/bio.2009.59.2.6.
Franklin, O. , McMurtrie, R.E., Iversen, C.M., Crous, K.Y., Finzi, A.C., Tissue, D.T., Ellsworth, D., Oren, R., & Norby, R.J. (2009). Forest fine-root production and nitrogen use under elevated CO2: Contrasting responses in evergreen and deciduous trees explained by a common principle. Global Change Biology 15 (1) 132-144. 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01710.x.
Franklin, O. (2007). Optimal nitrogen allocation controls tree responses to elevated CO2. New Phytologist 174 (4) 811-822. 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2007.02063.x.