TSX Resources – TSX

TSX Training Manual

The TSX Training Manual provides detailed background on the TSX and how it works, and walks data providers and users through data upload and management.

TSX Training Manual

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TSX Data Import Template

To integrate your threatened species monitoring data into the TSX database it must be formatted using the TSX data import template. Formatting your data using the template ensures that you can smoothly and successfully upload your data within our Data Management Interface.

TSX Training Videos

Data Import Template

Source columns 04:05

Survey columns 05:39

Sighting columns 04:13

Getting your data into the template format 15:18

Data Management Interface

Creating a new dataset & uploading data 04:55

Identifying & fixing errors in your data file 03:08

Uploading new data to an existing dataset 06:38

Dataset filtering & downloads for custodians 08:46

Downloads page for program manager 09:08

Trend Visualiser Tool

Generating & interpreting abundance trends 06:11

TSX Workshop Recordings

In partnership with the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW), the TSX has run several training workshops on data provision and how to use the TSX data management interface.

01 April 2025

TSX end-user training workshop – using the TSX to generate trends for your projects

17 September 2024

TSX end-user training and EMSA module development workshop

28 May 2024

TSX end-user training workshop – how to us the TSX data management interface

17 November 2022 (1 of 4)

TSX and RLP Projects training workshop – introducing RLP providers to the TSX

Additional Resources

Living Planet Index

Living Planet Index (LPI)

2022 Living Planet Report (PDF, 65.5 MB)

2022 Living Planet Report: Technical Supplement (PDF, 4.46 MB)

Loh, J. et al. (2005). The Living Planet Index: using species population time series to track trends in biodiversity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 360, 289–295.

Collen, B. et al. (2009). Monitoring change in vertebrate abundance: the Living Planet Index. Conservation Biology 23, 317–327.

McRae, L. et al. (2017). The diversity-weighted Living Planet Index: controlling for taxonomic bias in a global biodiversity indicator. PLoS ONE 12, e0169156.

Australian Government resources

DCCEEW (2022). Threatened Species Action Plan, 2022-2032. Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Canberra.

Murphy, H. and Van Leeuwen, S. (2021). Biodiversity. State of the Environment Report, 2021. Australian Government, Canberra (PDF, 24MB).

DCCEEW (2024). Natural Resource Management Long-term Monitoring Program (NRM-LTMP). Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Canberra.

DCCEEW (2024). Ecological Monitoring System Australia (EMSA). Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Canberra.

DCCEEW (2024). The Saving Native Species Program. Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Canberra.

Publications

Bayraktarov, E. et al. (2021). A threatened species index for Australian birds. Conservation Science and Practice 2021;3:e322.

Bayraktarov, E. et al. (2021). Variable effects of protected areas on long-term multispecies trends for Australia’s imperilled birds. Conservation Science and Practice 2021;3:e443.

Tulloch, A. et al. (2023). Effects of different management strategies on long-term trends of Australian threatened and near-threatened mammals. Conservation Biology 2023;2:e14032.

Legge, S. et al. (2023). Loss of terrestrial biodiversity in Australia: Magnitude, causation, and response. Science 2023;381(6658):622–631.

© 2025 TSX. The TSX is managed by the NCRIS-funded TERN project at The University of Queensland and supported by the Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW). It was established by the National Environmental Science Program’s Threatened Species Recovery Hub,The University of Queensland and Birdlife Australia. Banner images © Glenn Ehmke, Nicolas Rakotopare, Andrew Silcock