The “inspiration” of soil respiration due to soil rewetting might not be ignorable and should be included in calculating of the annual soil CO_2 efflux. The effect of soil rewetting on soil respiration was determined in field of a natural forest of Castanopsis kawakamii (NF), a C. kawakamii plantation forest (CK), and a Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata) (CF) plantation forest in Sanming Nature Reserve, Fujian, China, and in laboratory at different temperature of 10℃, 19℃ and 28℃ with soil rewetting. The...