- Thorsen, M.K., Woodward, S. & McKenzie, B.M. Kelp (Laminaria digitata) increases germination and affects rooting and plant vigour in crops and native plants from an arable grassland in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. J Coast Conserv 14, 239–247 (2010)
- Crossman, Edward C. “Sea-Weed for War.” Scientific American, vol. 119, no. 12, 1918, pp. 231–240
- R. K. Greville, Algae Britannicae, pub. Maclachlan & Stewart, Edinburgh 1830
- Feldmann, J; John, K; Pengprecha, P; Arsenic metabolism in seaweed-eating sheep from Northern Scotland. National Library of Medicine. Fresenius Journal of Analytical Chemistry Vol. 368, Iss. 1, (Sep. 2000): 116-121
- Species of the UK – Kelp (online resource)
- D. Dungworth, Innovations in the 17th-century glass industry: The introduction of kelp (seaweed) ash in Britain, Association Verre & Histoire, March 2009
- Laminaria, an overview, Science Direct, online resource
- The Seaweed Site, Ireland, (online resource)
- P. L. Simmonds, Waste products and Undeveloped Substances, pub. Hardwicke & Bogue 1873
- A. H. Buschmann et al (2017) Seaweed production: overview of the global state of exploitation, farming and emerging research activity, European Journal of Phycology, 52:4, 391-406
- Jon M. Erlandson, Michael H. Graham, Bruce J. Bourque, Debra Corbett, James A. Estes & Robert S. Steneck (2007) The Kelp Highway Hypothesis: Marine Ecology, the Coastal Migration Theory, and the Peopling of the Americas, The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 2:2, 161-174
- O. Mouritsen, The Science of Seaweeds, American Scientist
See full list of Individual Species References.
Please also refer to the General Bibliography and Online Resources.