Calculating trimmed biomass
From the fresh biomass \(B_{\text{fresh\ wood}}^{\text{aliquot}}\) of a wood aliquot and its dry biomass\(B_{\text{dry\ wood}}^{\text{aliquot}}\), the moisture content of the wood (including bark) was calculated as follow:
\begin{equation} X_{wood,i}=\frac{B\ aliquot\ dry\ wood,i}{\text{B\ }aliquot\ fresh\ wood,i}\nonumber \\ \end{equation}
Likewise, the moisture content of the leaves was calculated from the fresh biomass \(B_{fresh\ leaf,i}^{\text{aliquot}}\) of the leaf aliquot and its dry biomass.
\begin{equation} X_{leaf,i}=\frac{B_{dry\ leaf,i}^{\text{aliquot}}}{B_{fresh\ leaf,i}^{\text{aliquot}}}\nonumber \\ \end{equation}
Trimmed dry biomass can then be calculated:
B trimmed dry = B trimmed fresh wood ×X wood + B trimmed fresh leaf ×X leaf
Where B trimmed fresh leaf is the fresh biomass of the leaves stripped from the trimmed branches and B trimmed fresh wood is the fresh biomass of the wood in the trimmed branches (Picard et al ., 2012).