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Laurent Lebreton

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Papers (63)

Modelling the cleanup of the North Pacific Garbage Patch based on 3 years of operational experience
2026 Scientific Reports 0 citations
Halting marine plastic inputs by 2050 is necessary but not sufficient to avoid microplastic accumulation
2026 Communications Earth & Environment 0 citations
Simulating microplastic distribution in oceans: The impact of morphology and sources
2026 Environmental Research Letters 0 citations
From mercury to plastics: Earth system science and governance strategies
2026 npj Emerging Contaminants 0 citations
Automated debris imaging system: calibrated global monitoring of floating marine litter using ship-based cameras and deep learning
2026 Environmental Research Communications 0 citations
The distribution of subsurface microplastics in the ocean
2025 Nature 125 citations
Assessing Plastic Brittleness to Understand Secondary Microplastic Formation on Beaches: A Hotspot for Weathered Marine Plastics
2025 Microplastics and Nanoplastics 11 citations
A year-long field study of buried plastics reveals underestimation of plastic pollution on Hawaiian beaches
2025 Colloid & Polymer Science 5 citations
Evaluating the environmental impact of cleaning the North Pacific Garbage Patch
2025 Scientific Reports 4 citations
Concentration gradient of plastic debris larger than 500 μm detected across the Southwest Indian ocean
2025 Scientific Reports 2 citations
Rise velocity of small polyolefin plastics in a seawater tank exposed to natural conditions in Hawai’i
2025 Environmental Research Communications 0 citations
Buried Plastic Pollution and Fragmentation Dynamics in Coastal Zones: Insights from Hawaiian Beaches
2025 0 citations
Towards Understanding Drivers of Plastic Embrittlement and Fragmentation in Coastal Environments
2025 0 citations
Computer vision segmentation model—deep learning for categorizing microplastic debris
2024 Frontiers in Environmental Science 10 citations
Barau's petrel, Pterodroma baraui, as a bioindicator of plastic pollution in the South-West Indian Ocean: A multifaceted approach
2024 Polish Journal of Environmental Studies 7 citations
Impact of microplastic pollution on breaking waves
2024 Physics of Fluids 6 citations
Changes in microbial community structure of bio‐fouled polyolefins over a year‐long seawater incubation in Hawai'i
2024 Waste Management 6 citations
Supplementary data for 'Evidence that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is rapidly accumulating plastic'
2024 Figshare 2 citations
How much are we responsible for removing ocean plastic pollution ?
2024 Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) 0 citations
Microplastic and nanoplastic analysis methods, tests and reference materials
2024 Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) 0 citations
How much are we responsible for removing ocean plastic pollution ?
2024 Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) 0 citations
Evaluating the net environmental impact of removing plastic pollution from the North Pacific Garbage Patch
2024 Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) 0 citations
Evaluating the net environmental impact of removing plastic pollution from the North Pacific Garbage Patch
2024 Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) 0 citations
Microplastic and nanoplastic analysis methods, tests and reference materials
2024 Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) 0 citations
Plastic debris (> 500µm) concentration gradient detected across the Southwest Indian Ocean
2024 0 citations
Extent and reproduction of coastal species on plastic debris in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre
2023 Nature Ecology & Evolution 57 citations
Pelagic microplastics in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre: A prevalent anthropogenic component of the particulate organic carbon pool
2023 PNAS Nexus 29 citations
Legacy oceanic plastic pollution must be addressed to mitigate possible long-term ecological impacts
2023 Microplastics and Nanoplastics 29 citations
Do loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) gut contents reflect the types, colors and sources of plastic pollution in the Southwest Indian Ocean?
2023 Colloid & Polymer Science 24 citations
Impact of microplastic pollution on breaking waves
2023 Research Square (Research Square) 1 citations
Dataset_Zhao et al, PNAS Nexus, pgad070.xlsx
2023 Figshare 0 citations
Plastics in Freshwater Bodies
2022 14 citations
Correspondence regarding the Perspective “Addressing the importance of microplastic particles as vectors for long-range transport of chemical contaminants: perspective in relation to prioritizing research and regulatory actions”
2022 Microplastics and Nanoplastics 3 citations
More than 1000 rivers account for 80% of global riverine plastic emissions into the ocean
2021 Science Advances 1,251 citations
An inshore–offshore sorting system revealed from global classification of ocean litter
2021 Nature Sustainability 431 citations
Microplastics and anthropogenic fibre concentrations in lakes reflect surrounding land use
2021 PLoS Biology 53 citations
Comment on “Addressing the importance of microplastic particles as vectors for long‐range transport of chemical contaminants: perspective in relation to prioritizing research and regulatory actions”
2021 0 citations
data of raw microplastic observations from Figure S1 of Van Sebille et al (2015, ERL) paper
2021 Figshare 0 citations
Predicted growth in plastic waste exceeds efforts to mitigate plastic pollution
2020 University Library (University of Saskatchewan) 2,889 citations
First evidence of plastic fallout from the North Pacific Garbage Patch
2020 Scientific Reports 193 citations
Concentration, anisotropic and apparent colour effects on optical reflectance properties of virgin and ocean-harvested plastics
2020 Journal of Hazardous Materials 57 citations
A spatially variable scarcity of floating microplastics in the eastern North Pacific Ocean
2020 Environmental Research Letters 54 citations
Transnational Plastics: An Australian Case for Global Action
2020 Frontiers in Environmental Science 16 citations
Searching for the missing plastic: a global surface mass budget for floating ocean plastics.
2020 0 citations
What’s that Floating in my Soup? Characterisation and Handling of Floating Debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
2020 0 citations
Future scenarios of global plastic waste generation and disposal
2019 Palgrave Communications 2,174 citations
A global mass budget for positively buoyant macroplastic debris in the ocean
2019 Scientific Reports 535 citations
Measuring Marine Plastic Debris from Space: Initial Assessment of Observation Requirements
2019 Remote Sensing 187 citations
Risk assessment of plastic pollution on marine diversity in the Mediterranean Sea
2019 The Science of The Total Environment 154 citations
Joint effort among research infrastructures to quantify the impact of plastic debris in the ocean
2019 Environmental Research Letters 38 citations
Over 1000 rivers accountable for 80% of global riverine plastic emissions into the ocean
2019 23 citations
Evidence that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is rapidly accumulating plastic
2018 Scientific Reports 1,729 citations
A Methodology to Characterize Riverine Macroplastic Emission Into the Ocean
2018 Frontiers in Marine Science 269 citations
Microplastics in marine sediments of the Mississippi River Delta (Gulf of Mexico)
2018 Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University) 0 citations
River plastic emissions to the world’s oceans
2017 Nature Communications 3,701 citations
Using Numerical Model Simulations to Improve the Understanding of Micro-plastic Distribution and Pathways in the Marine Environment
2017 Frontiers in Marine Science 248 citations
Microplastic sampling with the AVANI trawl compared to two neuston trawls in the Bay of Bengal and South Pacific
2017 Environmental Pollution 139 citations
Nature of Plastic Marine Pollution in the Subtropical Gyres
2016 ˜The œhandbook of environmental chemistry 48 citations
A global inventory of small floating plastic debris
2015 Environmental Research Letters 1,641 citations
data of microplastic abundance and mass from Figure 3 of Van Sebille et al (2015, ERL) paper
2015 Figshare 0 citations
data of microplastic abundance and mass from Figure 3 of Van Sebille et al (2015, ERL) paper
2015 Figshare 0 citations
Plastic Pollution in the World's Oceans: More than 5 Trillion Plastic Pieces Weighing over 250,000 Tons Afloat at Sea
2014 PLoS ONE 4,533 citations
Global research priorities to mitigate plastic pollution impacts on marine wildlife
2014 Endangered Species Research 326 citations