Bird use of linear areas of a tropical city: implications for park connector design and management. By Sodhi NS, Briffett C, Kong L, Yuen B. LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING 45 (2-3): 123-130 OCT 30 1999.
Abstract - The National Parks Board of Singapore has plans to link up all urban parks and native habitats through a park-connector network. Although this connector network has already been implemented, it will take about 30 years to complete. We surveyed birds in 10 linear areas in Singapore. Of these linear areas, two were already completed park connectors, six were parks, and two were located in rainforest edges. We assessed and compared bird communities among these 10 sites. We also determined how the characteristics of these linear areas affect bird diversity and abundance. One of the established park connectors, the Ulu Pandan Canal, attracted 67 bird species, and its bird community was similar to a linear park (Kent Ridge Park). The other recently completed connector, the Jurong Canal, had only 37 bird species. Based on characteristics (percentage of area covered by built environment, open space, vegetation and water) within and surrounding the sites, we found that with increases in built areas, higher abundance of human-associated bird species (e.g. House Swift, Apus nipalensis and Common Myna, Acridotheres javanicus) was found at the sites. Similarly, the increase in vegetation cover (both native and managed) increased the abundance of parkland and rainforest-associated bird species (e.g. Greater Green Leafbird, Chloropsis sonnerati and Short-tailed Babbler, Malacocincla malaccensis). For completed connectors, landscape and management planners should preserve the existing diversity of habitats surrounding the connectors. Similar steps should be taken for the design of future park connectors.

The birds of Kent Ridge Park, Singapore. By AR Lamont. RAFFLES BULLETIN OF ZOOLOGY 46 (1): 113-122 JUN 30 1998.
Abstract - Studies were made of the bird diversity in Kent Ridge Park, Singapore for an initial three year period from September 1992 to August 1995 and for a second six month period from September 1995 to February 1996. The park was visited on 616 days and 151 bird species were recorded during the first study and on 95 days during the second study that added six new bird species. The most important record is of a female/immature Narcissus Flycatcher (Ficedula narcissina elisae) which is a new record for Singapore. Breeding records, changes in habitat and species diversity, and illegal bird trapping were also noted and are commented on, The continued loss of buffer zone habitat combined with the destruction of natural habitat in the park itself may have had a detrimental effect on the resident bird diversity.

Kent Ridge environs : a proposal for conserving nature at the National University of Singapore campus. Prepared by the Singapore Branch of the Malayan Nature Society, Conservation Committee ; in consultation with Ho Hua Chew ... [et al.] ; editor and coordinator Clive Briffett]. SC Closed Stacks S102071 QH77.12 Ken

 External morphology and anatomy of leaves of woody angiosperms on Kent Ridge. Chee Chye Yun. SC Theses Coll QK3 *1987 2

Tripteroides aronoides (Theobald) in two pitcher plants, Nepenthes ampullaria Jack & N. Gracilis Korth, at Kent Ridge (Diptera : Culicide). Lam Siong Yeng. SC Theses Coll QL3 *1982

A field plot study of rainfall-runoff relationships at Kent Ridge. Goh Ngai Leng. CL Theses Coll G58 *1988.

Sediment production in the Kent Ridge area / Jessie Poon Peck Hoon. CL Theses Coll G58 *1984  

Vegetation in Kent Ridge / Letchimi T. Mudaliar. CL Theses Coll G58 *1984 5