This article reviews the current status, trends and challenges of land system science in Latin America. We highlight the advances in the conceptualization, analysis and monitoring of land systems. These advances shift from a focus on the relationships between forests and other land uses to include a greater diversity of land cover and land-use types and the processes and interactions that link them. We then provide a biome-level typology of social-ecological land systems (SELS) as an approach to help connect local-level realities to regional processes and we discuss how this approach can help to design more socially inclusive land systems. We also discuss the increased role of distant socio-economic and ecological interactions that connect these SELS to global processes. Combined, these insights support a research agenda for land system science in the region that can develop more accurate and integrative monitoring of land change and their social and ecological consequences, better understand different stakeholder perspectives within a context of livelihood diversification, and encourage institutional feedbacks to govern land systems influenced by distant drivers.

本文回顾了拉丁美洲土地系统科学的现状，趋势和挑战。我们重点介绍了土地系统的概念化，分析和监测方面的进展。这些进展从关注森林与其他土地利用之间的关系转变为包括更大范围的土地覆盖和土地利用类型以及将它们联系在一起的过程和相互作用。然后，我们提供社会生态土地系统（SELS）的生物群系级别分类法，以帮助将地方现实与区域过程联系起来，并讨论该方法如何帮助设计更具社会包容性的土地系统。我们还将讨论将这些SELS与全球流程联系起来的遥远的社会经济和生态互动所起的日益重要的作用。结合起来