Abstract Advocates, practitioners and policy‐makers continue to use advocate for marine protected areas (MPAs) meet global ocean protection targets. Yet many of the worlds MPAs, especially no‐take are plagued by poaching ineffective governance. Using a dataset on coral reefs as an example, we quantify potential ecological gains governing MPAs increase compliance, which call ‘compliance gap’. si...

Recent years have seen enormous demand amongst policy makers for new insights from the behavioural sciences, especially neuroscience. This demand is matched by an increasing willingness on behalf of behavioural scientists to translate the policy implications of their work. But can neuroscience really help shape the governance of a nation? Or does this represent growing misuse of neuroscience to...

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F. Helfenstein (correspondence), Evolutionary Ecology Group, Zoological Institute, University of Bern, Baltzerstrasse 6, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland. E-mail: [email protected]. R. H. Wagner, Konrad Lorenz Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Savoyenstrasse 1a, A-1160 Vienna, Austria. T. Szép, Institute of Environmental Sciences, College of Nyı́regyháza, P.O. Box 166, H-4401 Nyı́regyhá...

V. Careau ([email protected]) and D. Thomas, Dépt de Biologie, Univ. de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada, J1K 2R1. M. M. Humphries, Natural Resource Sciences, Macdonald Campus, McGill Univ., Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC, Canada, H9X 3V9. D. Réale, Canada Research Chair in Behavioural Ecology, Groupe de Recherche en Écologie Comportementale et Animale, Dépt des Sciences Biologiques, Un...

1 Département de Biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada, J1 K 2R1; 2 AG Systematik und Evolutionsbiologie, IBU – Fakultät V, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, 26111 Oldenburg, Germany; 3 Canada Research Chair in behavioural ecology, Département des Sciences Biologiques, Université du Québec à Montréal, P.O. Box 8888, succursale Centre-Ville, Montréal, QC, Canada, H3C...