Abstract: Using Web of Science (WOS) core collection database with CiteSpace and VOSviewer method, the research explored the research progress of international ecosystem management. The results show that the process has developed at three stages: slow growth, fluctuation and rapid growth since 1988. Ecosystem management has become a vital tool for solving global environmental problems and achieving conservation goals. Ecosystem management considers nature-human-society as a complex system for the multiply goal of maintaining long-term ecological integrity of protected areas (PAs), sustaining livelihood sustainability and meeting public recreation demand. Integrating multidisciplinary approach, co-management, community-value, scientific-based and valued-based perspectives into PAs planning and management has become prevailing trend in ecosystem management research, while applying geographic information technology, computer science, big data and modern monitoring technology has become new features of it.