All chapters come with examples to explain the theoretical models.
Each chapter is extremly well organized and useful. The text is accompanied by many figures and downloadable files. This site is an absolute must for all teaching Population Ecology or students learning it, but it should also not be missed by anybody else. The web site Quantitative Population Ecology, maintained by Alexei Sharov at the Department of Entomology, Virginia Tech, containes 13 lecture handouts and 8 labs designed for a course of graduate students with low level prerequisites in statistics and ecology. Beginning with a brief introduction and definitions on population ecolgy, the following chapters describe the methods to census population densities and sizes.