Oskar Franklin
Senior Research Scholar
Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services Research Group
Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program
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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. , Palmroth, S., & Nasholm, T. (2014). How eco-evolutionary principles can guide tree breeding and tree biotechnology for enhanced productivity. Tree Physiology 34 (11) 1149-1166. 10.1093/treephys/tpu111.
Nasholm, T., Palmroth, S., Ganeteg, U., Moshelion, M., Hurry, V., & Franklin, O. (2014). Genetics of superior growth traits in trees are being mapped but will the faster-growing risk-taker make it in the wild? Tree Physiology 34 (11) 1141-1148. 10.1093/treephys/tpu112.
Lindh, M., Zhang, L., Falster, D., Franklin, O. , & Brännström, Å. (2014). Plant diversity and drought: The role of deep roots. Ecological Modelling 290 85-93. 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2014.05.008.
Jonas, M. , Ometto, J.P., Batistella, M., Franklin, O. , Hall, M., Lapola, D.M., Moran, E.F., Tramberend, S. , Queiroz, B.L., Schaffartzik, A., Shvidenko, A., Nilsson, S., & Nobre, C.A. (2014). Sustaining ecosystem services: Overcoming the dilemma posed by local actions and planetary boundaries. Earth's Future 2 (8) 407-420. 10.1002/2013EF000224.
Franklin, O. , Nasholm, T., Hogberg, P., & Hogberg, M.N. (2014). Forests trapped in nitrogen limitation - An ecological market perspective on ectomycorrhizal symbiosis. New Phytologist 203 (2) 657-666. 10.1111/nph.12840.