Soil respiration is not only an important process of carbon cycling in terrestrial ecosystem，but also is the largest CO2 releases source in terrestrial ecosystems,which have an important impact on the global climate and environment change.Based on the research on soil respiration of the previous scholars at home and abroad,both biological and nonbiological factors that influence the soil respiration were reviewed,including temperature factors,moisture,soil properties,vegetation,soil microbes,soil animals and induction of human activities,etc.Previous studies have indicated that temperature and moisture are the most important effects in soil respiration influence factors.The future research works on soil respiration were put forward:Soil respiration measurement methods should be improved and innovated,and the research scope of soil respiration should be broaden,and the components of soil respiration research should be strengthened.With the increasing of human impacts,the research of human activities on soil respiration is becoming more important.