Over the past 20 years, landscape metrics have become a central topic in landscape ecology research. The application of metrics has gradually expanded from North American landscape ecology research to the Central European branch of landscape ecology. The very rapid development of the scientific topic has been accompanied by number of problems, limitations and potential misinterpretations, however. Landscape metrics provide a descriptive spatial value for a limited set of separate objects. Li, Wu (2004) identify three general types of problems that may be responsible for this unsatisfactory progress: (1) conceptual flaws in landscape pattern analysis (e.g. ecological irrelevance, confusion between the scales of observation and analysis); (2) inherent limitations (e.g. variable responses to changes in spatial pattern, difficulties in interpreting); and (3) improper use (e.g. quantifying pattern without considering process, inappropriate inference from a single landscape). The intent of the article is to assess the opportunities for implementing landscape metrics into the Central European approach to landscape ecology so they would bring efficient, complementary information while also preventing misinterpretations. The author states that it will be usefull create a theoretical methodological framework for applying landscape metrics.