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
Fransson, P., Brännström, Å., & Franklin, O. (2021). A tree’s quest for light—Optimal height and diameter growth under a shading canopy. Tree Physiology 41 (1) 1-11. 10.1093/treephys/tpaa110.
Deckmyn, G., Flores, O., Mayer, M., Domene, X., Schnepf, A., Kuka, K., Van Looy, K., Rasse, D.P., Briones, M.J., Barot, S., Berg, M., Vanguelova, E., Ostonen, I., Vereecken, H., Suz, L.M., Frey, B., Frossard, A., Tiunov, A., Frouz, J., Grebenc, T., Öpik, M., Javaux, M., Uvarov, A., Vindušková, O., Henning Krogh, P., Franklin, O. , Jiménez, J., & Curiel Yuste, J. (2020). KEYLINK: towards a more integrative soil representation for inclusion in ecosystem scale models. I. review and model concept. PeerJ 8 e9750. 10.7717/peerj.9750.
Franklin, O. , Krasovskiy, A. , Kraxner, F., Platov, A., Schepaschenko, D. , Leduc, S., & Mattsson, B. (2020). Moose or spruce: A systems analysis model for managing conflicts between moose and forestry in Sweden. bioRxiv 10.1101/2020.08.11.241372. (Submitted)
Franklin, O. , Harrison, S.P., Dewar, R., Farrior, C.E., Brännström, Å., Dieckmann, U. , Pietsch, S. , Falster, S., Cramer, W., Loreau, M., Wang, H., Mäkelä, A., Rebel, K.T., Meron, E., Schymanski, S.J., Rovenskaya, E. , Stocker, B.D., Zaehle, S., Manzoni, S., van Oijen, My, Wright, I.J., Ciais, P., van Bodegom, P.M., Peñuelas, J., Hofhansl, F. , Terrer, C., Soudzilovskaia, N.A., Midgley, G., & Prentice, I.C. (2020). Organizing principles for vegetation dynamics. Nature Plants 6 444-453. 10.1038/s41477-020-0655-x.
Zhang, H., Prentice, I.C., Terrer, C., Keenan, T., & Franklin, O. (2020). Can elevated CO2 experiments explain the magnitude of the land carbon sink? DOI:10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-11589. In: European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2020, 4-8 May 2020, Vienna, Austria.