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| A global inventory of small floating plastic debris E Van Sebille, C Wilcox, L Lebreton, N Maximenko, BD Hardesty, ... Environmental Research Letters 10 (12), 124006, 2015 | 698 | 2015 |
| Evidence that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is rapidly accumulating plastic L Lebreton, B Slat, F Ferrari, B Sainte-Rose, J Aitken, R Marthouse, ... Scientific reports 8 (1), 1-15, 2018 | 576 | 2018 |
| Numerical modelling of floating debris in the world’s oceans LCM Lebreton, SD Greer, JC Borrero Marine pollution bulletin 64 (3), 653-661, 2012 | 488 | 2012 |
| Global research priorities to mitigate plastic pollution impacts on marine wildlife AC Vegter, M Barletta, C Beck, J Borrero, H Burton, ML Campbell, ... Endangered Species Research 25 (3), 225-247, 2014 | 238 | 2014 |
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| Modeling the transport and accumulation floating debris generated by the 11 March 2011 Tohoku tsunami LCM Lebreton, JC Borrero Marine Pollution Bulletin 66 (1-2), 53-58, 2013 | 85 | 2013 |
| The physical oceanography of the transport of floating marine debris E Van Sebille, S Aliani, KL Law, N Maximenko, JM Alsina, A Bagaev, ... Environmental Research Letters 15 (2), 023003, 2020 | 83 | 2020 |
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| Sensing ocean plastics with an airborne hyperspectral shortwave infrared imager SP Garaba, J Aitken, B Slat, HM Dierssen, L Lebreton, O Zielinski, ... Environmental science & technology 52 (20), 11699-11707, 2018 | 51 | 2018 |
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| Predicted growth in plastic waste exceeds efforts to mitigate plastic pollution SB Borrelle, J Ringma, KL Law, CC Monnahan, L Lebreton, A McGivern, ... Science 369 (6510), 1515-1518, 2020 | 43 | 2020 |
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