Data from: Prey abundance and leopard diet in a plantation and rainforest landscape, Anamalai Hills, Western Ghats

Sign surveys: Direct surveys for mammal were conducted using line transects (2-km-long) and indirect sign surveys using belt transects (2 km long and 2 m wide) in four different habitat types: continuous forest as control site, coffee plantation, forest fragment, and tea plantation. Diet analysis: Scats were analysed for predator diet using indigestible remains of prey species, particularly hairs, bones, quills and feathers. Hairs were identified based on external morphology, cuticular and medullary patterns, and ratio of medulla to cortex in cross-section, with the help of a microscope and comparing with photographs of reference slides. Please see the paper (under Related works) for more details on methods.