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 here Files: This consists of 1 file: Otter_Data_Annabel_Pianzin.xlsx Otter_Data_Annabel_Pianzin.xlsx This file contains dataset metadata and 3 data tables: Otter occupancy (described in worksheet Otter_Occupancy) Description: Otter occupancy Number of fields: 12 Number of data rows: 36 Fields: 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 ...