Here are some books that I have found helpful and interesting as learning ecological staistics and theoretical modeling.

1. Models for Ecological Data by James S. Clark, Princeton University Press (2007)
2. A Biologist’s Guide to Mathematical Modeling in Ecology and Evolution by Sarah P. Otto and Troy Day, Princeton University Press (2007)
3. Ecological Models and Data in R by Benjamin M. Bolker, Princeton University Press (2008)
4. The Ecological Detective: Confronting Models with Data by Ray Hilborn and Marc Mangel, Princeton University Press (1997)

A great introduction to biological computing

1. Practical Computing for Biologists by Steven H.D. Haddock and Casey W. Dunn, Sanauer Associaes, Inc. (2011)