Based on the literature, it is hard to derive clear conclusions on the overall effect of soil erosion on soil temperature, soil moisture and carbon mineralization in a sloping landscape. There is considerable disagreement in the literature on carbon dynamics at eroded and dispositional sites, and on the effects of soil temperature and soil moisture on carbon mineralization at different landscape positions (Harden et al., 1999; Kuhn et al., 2009; Vandenbygaart et al., 2012). We hypothesized that the magnitude of CO2 flux at different slope positions is related to soil erosion mainly due to its impact to soil temperature and soil moisture. Thus, the primary objective of this study was to evaluate erosion effects on carbon mineralization in black soil sloping land in northeast China taking the influence of erosion on soil temperature and soil moisture into consideration.