Biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) are volatile hydrocarbons emitted by plants with boiling point in the range of 50-260℃ and saturated vapor pressure at room temperature beyond 133.322 Pa. Because these compounds have high reactive activities and participate in atmospheric chemistry process of troposphere, they potentially affect atmospheric environmental quality, global change and the cycling of carbon(C) and nitrogen (N). BVOCs belong to plant secondary metabolites and are considered to be plant defensive matters. Some species among BVOCs even take important ecological roles, such as resisting environmental changes, stresses and mechanical injuries, being transferred as signals among plants or between plants and insects. As a result, the functions of BVOCs and the relationship between BVOCs and global change are increasingly concerned. Nowadays, N deposition is globalizing and has become one of the new global change phenomena, and is projected to increase rapidly with development of industry, agriculture and urbanization. Elevated N deposition has been known to seriously disturb the pattern of ecosystem C and N cycles, threat the ecosystem health and services, such as inducing forest soil acidification, reducing forest plant biodiversity, ecosystem N saturation, and so on. Increasing N deposition, as a new environmental factor, is stealthily and rapidly affecting BVOCs emission rates and species, and their functions in ecosystems. However, there have been so far few reports related to the effects of N deposition on BVOCs. In this paper, based on the available information from the literature, we firstly reviewed the affecting factors of BVOCs, secondly discussed the effects of N availability on BVOCs, and then proposed a model of possible impacts of N deposition on BVOCs. The proposed model showed that, in an N-deficient ecosystem, if N deposition offseted N deficiency and favored plant growth, huge BVOCs release would be happened; while in an N-enriched ecosystem, if N deposition accelerated N saturation or N eutrophication of the system and threated plant growth, BVOCs emission would be stimulated. In addition, we also proposed feasible methods for studying the effects on BVOCs from N deposition (e.g. potted experiment, simulated N deposition sites and different atmospheric N deposition gradient), and emphasized the significance and urgency to conduct such researches in China with high N deposition rate and sources. Because the total N deposition in some cities (e.g. Guangzhou and Guiyang) is estimated to be higher than 30 Tg N hm^-2a^-1, and China has been considered to be one of third nitrogen deposition regions in the world. The aim of the paper is to provide research progress and perspective at home and abroad for studying the responses of BVOCs to N deposition, and to simultaneouly increase our understanding on forest C sequestration, C and N cycles and their coupling into ecosystems. More importatnly, the research on BVOCs affected by N deposition can lay a strong basis to further explore the roles played by BVOCs during the process of the reduction of forest biodiversity and to correctly evaluate C loss as BVOCs in ecosystems under the condition of increasing N deposition in the future.