Abstract: Soil resp iration is an important component of the terrestrial ecosystems carbon cycle, and has great effectson maintaining the balance of global carbon. Global warming is expected to alter patterns of global atmospherecirculation and hydrologic cycling, and this will lead to the change of p recip itation regimes on global to regionalscales, which will have a direct effect on soilmoisture, so it is necessary to study how the change of soil moisturewould affect soil resp iration for p redicting change of soil carbon storage in the future. In this paper, the authorsreviewed the studies about the influences of soilmoisture change on soil resp iration, then analyzed how the change ofsoil moisture would affect each component of soil resp iration systemically, and introduced how the soil moisturewould affect Q10 briefly, finally, it point out the study fields that should be emphasized in the future.