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
Stocker, B. D., Prentice, I. C., Cornell, S. E., Davies-Barnard, T., Finzi, A. C., Franklin, O. , Janssens, I., Larmola, T., Manzoni, S., Näsholm, T., Raven, J. A., Rebel, K. T., Reed, S., Vicca, S., Wiltshire, A., & Zaehle, S. (2016). Terrestrial nitrogen cycling in Earth system models revisited. New Phytologist 210 (4) 1165-1168. 10.1111/nph.13997.
Evans, S., Dieckmann, U. , Franklin, O. , & Kaiser, C. (2016). Synergistic effects of diffusion and microbial physiology reproduce the Birch effect in a micro-scale model. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 93 28-37. 10.1016/j.soilbio.2015.10.020.
Franklin, O. (2016). Predicting plants – modeling traits as a function of environment. In: European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2016, 17–22 April 2016, Vienna, Austria.
Kaiser, C., Franklin, O. , Richter, A., & Dieckmann, U. (2015). Social dynamics within decomposer communities lead to nitrogen retention and organic matter build-up in soils. Nature Communications 6 no.8960. 10.1038/ncomms9960.
Shanafelt, D.W., Dieckmann, U. , Jonas, M. , Franklin, O. , Loreau, M., & Perrings, C. (2015). Biodiversity, productivity, and the spatial insurance hypothesis revisited. Journal of Theoretical Biology 380 426-435. 10.1016/j.jtbi.2015.06.017.