Research has estimated global spatial overlap of sharks and fisheries, climate change impacts on fishes, identified common patterns of behaviour (scaling laws) across phyla and informed conservation of threatened species.

[10] He showed from long-term field studies of behaviour and satellite tracking that basking sharks feed on specific assemblages of zooplankton and do not hibernate in winter,[11][12][13] overturning an understanding which had stood for nearly 50 years.

[18] Results have demonstrated the biological significance of ocean fronts to predators,[19] which have potential as candidates for high-seas protected areas.

[25] Research has identified common scaling laws that describe movement paths and behaviour patterns of marine predators.

In the book Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do, the physicist and best-selling author Albert-László Barabási writes: "Yet if a Lévy flight offers the best search strategy, why didn’t natural selection force animals to exploit it?

Since then additional evidence for biological Lévy walks has accumulated across a wide range of taxa including microbes and humans[35] and in fossil trails of extinct invertebrates,[36] suggesting an ancient origin of the movement pattern.

His studies published in Nature on Lévy and Brownian searches in ocean predators[26][27] inspired the optimal-foraging decision process used in an optimisation algorithm – the "Marine Predators Algorithm"[38] – a high-performance optimizer with applications to engineering, including electrical modeling of photovoltaic power plants[39] and renewable-energy systems design.

They found pelagic sharks like the shortfin mako aggregate in space-use "hotspots" characterized by fronts and high plankton biomass.

[41] Data showed longline fishing vessels also targeted the habitats and efficiently tracked shark movements seasonally, leading to an 80% spatial overlap.