Description: A study on the occupancy of otters in streams across land-use gradient, within four habitat treatments: logged forest (LF), heavily degraded forest (HDF), riparian reserves within oil palm plantation (RR), and oil palm plantation (ROP).Project: This dataset was collected as part of the following SAFE research project: Investigating the Occupancy & Habitat Use of Tropical Otters Across Human Modified Landscapes in SAFE Project, Kalabakan, Sabah.Funding: These data were collected as part of research funded by: Universiti Malaysia Sabah (Studentship)This dataset is released under the CC-BY 4.0 licence, requiring that you cite the dataset in any outputs, but has the additional condition that you acknowledge the contribution of these funders in any outputs.Permits: These data were collected under permit from the following authorities:Sabah Biodiversity Council (Research licence 2016/56)XML metadata: GEMINI compliant metadata for this dataset is available hereFiles: This consists of 1 file: Otter_Data_Annabel_Pianzin.xlsxOtter_Data_Annabel_Pianzin.xlsxThis file contains dataset metadata and 3 data tables:Otter occupancy (described in worksheet Otter_Occupancy)Description: Otter occupancyNumber of fields: 12Number of data rows: 36Fields: site: Location within the SAFE landscape (Field type: location)subtransect_ID: Point ID (Field type: id)treatment: Habitat type (Field type: categorical)oc1: Presence absence of otter (Field type: abundance)oc2: Presence absence of otter (Field type: abundance)oc3: Presence absence of otter (Field type: abundance)oc4: Presence absence of otter (Field type: abundance)spraint: Visual observation of spraint (Field type: abundance)footprint: Visual observation of otter footprint (Field type: abundance)taxa: Species detected at the site (Field type: taxa)A.cinereus: Presence absence of otter (Field type: abundance)L.perspicillata: Presence absence of otter (Field type: abundance)Occupancy Survey Date (described in worksheet Occupancy_Survey_Date)Description: ...