Accepted Article This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as doi: 10.1111/gcb.12277 This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. Received Date : 23-Dec-2012 Accepted Date : 12-May-2013 Article type : Review The impacts of climate change and human activities on biogeochemical cycles on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau Huai Chen 1, 2, 3* , Qiuan Zhu 2, 3* Changhui Peng 4, 2* , Ning Wu 1, 3, 5 , Yanfen Wang 6, 3 , Xiuqing Fang 4 , Yongheng Gao 7, 3 , Dan Zhu 1,3 , Gang Yang 2, 3 , Jianqing Tian 8, 3 , Xiaoming Kang 6 , Shilong Piao 9, 10 , Hua Ouyang 11 , Wenhua Xiang 12 , Zhibin Luo 2 , Hong Jiang 13 , Xingzhang Song 13 , Yao Zhang 2 , Guirui Yu 11 , Xinquan Zhao 1, 14 , Peng Gong 15 , Tandong Yao 9 , Jianghua Wu 16 1 Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, China 2 Laboratory for Ecological Forecasting and Global Change, College of Forestry, Northwest Agriculture and Forest University, Yangling 712100, China 3 Zoige Peatland and Global Change Research Station, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hongyuan 624400, China 4 Institute of Environment Sciences, Department of Biology Science, University of Quebec at Montreal, Montreal C3H 3P8, Canada 5 International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, GPO Box 3226, Kathmandu, Nepal 6 Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China