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
Franklin, O. , Fransson, P., Hofhansl, F. , Jansen, S., & Joshi, J. (2023). Optimal balancing of xylem efficiency and safety explains plant vulnerability to drought. Ecology Letters 26 1485-1496. 10.1111/ele.14270.
Henriksson, N., Marshall, J., Högberg, M.N., Högberg, P., Polle, A., Franklin, O. , & Näsholm, T. (2023). Re‐examining the evidence for the mother tree hypothesis – resource sharing among trees via ectomycorrhizal networks. New Phytologist 239 19-28. 10.1111/nph.18935.
Bonner, M.TL., Franklin, O. , Hasegawa, S., & Näsholm, T. (2022). Those who can don't want to, and those who want to can't: An eco-evolutionary mechanism of soil carbon persistence. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 174 e108813. 10.1016/j.soilbio.2022.108813.
Franklin, O. , Fransson, P., Hofhansl, F. , & Joshi, J. (2022). Plants maximize the conductive efficiency of the xylem. In: EGU General Assembly 2022, 23-27 May 2022, Vienna.