For the future model users, 16 peatland and wetland models reviewed to identify individual model operational scale (spatial and temporal), stabilization timeframes of different carbon pools, model specific advantages and limitations, common and specific model driving inputs, critical inputs of individual models impacting CH₄ plant mediated, CH₄ diffusion and CH₄ ebullition. Finally, we qualitatively ranked the process representations in each model for CH₄ production, oxidation and transport.

Abbeyleix Bog in the Irish Midlands contains areas that were historically harvested for peat and then abandoned as well as areas that were never harvested. This study measured the carbon balance for both harvested locations and unharvested locations at Abbeyleix Bog. Measurements were conducted in the field over 2 years. This was carried out to understand how the historic harvesting and later abandonment of peat affect greenhouse gas emissions.