The magnitude and location of carbon sources and sinks in the terrestrial biosphere are far from certain.This uncertainty is partly due to the lack of our understanding of how natural and human disturbances affect the terrestrial carbon cycle.Fire disturbance has been identified as one of the most important factors that control ecosystem processes and hence the carbon cycle.In this paper,we have reviewed the state-of-the-art in quantifying fire disturbance and ecosystem carbon cycle,which covers four critic...