Abstract: The global average temperature is continuously becoming warming, with far-reaching impacts on ecosystems. As one of the most abundant biological components in terrestrial ecosystems, soil fauna plays a vital role in environmental indications and biogeochemical cycles. Numerous studies have shown that climate warming has profound effects on soil fauna community structure, though the underlying mechanisms are not fully understood. This review summarized research progress and proposed that climate warming would affect soil fauna community structure through changing the growth, development and reproduction of soil fauna; the habitats and environments; food resources; and food web structures. Furthermore, we proposed that the following prospects should be paid more attention in future studies: (1) sensitive areas to climate change; (2) longterm field observations; (3) new sampling techniques for soil fauna; (4) applications of isotopic and high-throughput sequencing approaches; (5) analysis of functional traits of soil fauna; (6) potential effects of climate warming on the ecological function of soil fauna.

Key words: vegetation restoration, path analysis, soil enzyme, soil microorganism, saline soil, canonical correspondence analysis.