Appendices

Appendix A: Examples of the error propagation equation for the simple cases of a sum, product, and quotient.
Ecological Archives M075-023-A1.

Appendix B: Geometrical analogies of the error propagation and error budget equations, with the addition of vectors.
Ecological Archives M075-023-A2.

Appendix C: Equations for the partial derivatives, obtained from the differentiation of the species-specific and total biomasses, and used to evaluate the propagated error.
Ecological Archives M075-023-A3.

Appendix D: Equations for the error budgets for total biomass that describe a by-species partitioning and a by-variable partitioning, respectively.
Ecological Archives M075-023-A4.

Appendix E: Discussion of the sources and magnitude of the variance in the branch diameter measurements.
Ecological Archives M075-023-A5.

Appendix F: Calculation of the upper bound for the error in the Taylor expansion approximation used in Gaussian error propagation (GEP).
Ecological Archives M075-023-A6.

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