中文摘要：

一切生命过程都伴随着热效应。微量热法可对这些热效应进行精确的跟踪，并表征其过程。微量热法已广泛应用于医药、生化等研究领域，但在土壤微生物研究中却鲜有应用。本文简要介绍微量热法的原理和实验方法，综述其在土壤微生物研究中的应用现状井展望其应用前景，以期为土壤微生物研究提供新的思路和技术。

英文摘要：

All life processes are associated with heat effect. Microcalorimetry can sensitively track this heat effect and quantitatively characterize life processes. Though microcalorimetry has been extensively and intensively applied in medical and biochemical researching fields, it is hardly used in soil microbiology research yet. This article briefly introduced the principle and the protocol of microcalorimetry, reviewd advances in its application and prospects its development in soil microbiology research, in order to provide new technique and idea for soil microbiology research.