How to prepare scientists to unleash creativity with ChatGPT

How would you re-write this text: “Silva et al. 2018 on the bioinvasion of the brown mussel Perna perna in Brazil states that “the question of whether a species is a bioinvader or not may not be straightforward”. P. perna is presently widely distributed in Brasil and considered to be naturalized. But how long does it take for ‘naturalization’ and how do we measure it? If filogenetically we assume that all living beings diverged from a last universal common ancestor – LUCA, then it should be reasonable to assume that all native species also diverged from an exotic or invasive ancestor. Moreover, the ultimate goal of every species to maximize is to survive and reproduce, and, as a population, to expand, to finding and obtaining resources such as food, water, and shelter, as well as avoiding predators and other threats to their survival. It also often involves finding a mate and reproducing, either through sexual or asexual reproduction. Species have different strategies to achieve these goals, for example r and k strategies. “r strategists” have a high reproductive rate and are able to produce a large number of offspring in a short period of time. These species tend to have short lifespans and reproduce at an early age. They are well-suited to environments that are unpredictable or have a high degree of variability, as they can take advantage of temporary or ephemeral resources. These charactetics are common to pioneer species that are the first to colonize a previously unoccupied habitat. These species are often hardy and able to tolerate a wide range of environmental conditions, and they can play an important role in the development and establishment of new ecosystems. Could we than differentiate a pioneer from an invasive species? Or an invasion from a leggitimate dispersion? If so, what are the variables and the metrics in both cases? These questions are hard to answer. The definition of an invasive/invasion then seems to be dependent of damage to the invaded ecosystem: “In contrast, an invasive species is a species that is not native to a particular ecosystem and causes harm to the ecosystem or to the species that are already living there. These species can have negative impacts on native species by outcompeting them for resources, carrying diseases that can affect native species, or causing physical damage to the ecosystem.” A definition like this has several logical problems. I have argued for a long time that defining Damage requires a perspective: damage to whom? It also should require a scale: a drop of oil in the ocean may disrupt the balance of its microsurroundings, but is irrelevant to the volume of the whole ocean. Bastianoni in 1998 proposed the use of emergy/exervy thermodynamic goal functions to measure the difference between a new equilibrium state (after the introduction of something) compared to a previous equilibrium state. It is probably still extremely hard to evaluate emergy/exergy in a complex ecosystem, but at least it fullfil what I believe are the requirements for an independent, unbiased and helpful measure of balance. So when asked to determine if the Sun Coral (orange and yellow cup corals Tubastreae sp) are indeed invasive species we wondered: can we use thermodynamic goal functions to determine it?”