The phrase "agent of decline" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a person, factor, or entity that contributes to a decrease or deterioration in a particular situation or context.
Example: "The lack of investment in infrastructure has made the city an agent of decline, leading to increased poverty and crime rates."
Alternatives: "catalyst for deterioration" or "force of regression".
An adaptive management approach to the mitigation of the agents of decline is recommended.
Plant diseases caused by MLOs are grouped as agents of "decline" (characterized by loss of vigour, decrease in yield of fruit, and eventual death) and agents of virescence (the greening of flowers) and developmental abnormalities.
Storms and A. planci predation were the most important agents of decline, both in terms of their prevalence and severity (Table 1, Fig. 4).
Pre-event coral covers were similar for bleaching, A. planci and storm events (means of 37, 32, 38% respectively) but higher for disease, multiple and unknown agents of decline (means of 53, 43, 40% respectively) (Table 1).
Twenty years ago, the agent of that decline was a kind of television program — two guys trading opinions on the movies of the week — that now, in its twilight, looks exalted and heroic.
These negative findings need to be interpreted in the light of the fact that over 70% of UPLIFT participants used an inhaled corticosteroid and/or long-acting beta-agonist during the course of the trial (27), thus making it more difficult to demonstrate an impact of tiotropium on top of any potential effect of these concomitant therapeutic agents on decline in FEV1.
You did," he said angrily, referring to Westerners, which many Afghans feel are agents of the decline of the society.
In fact, a good deal of American prosperity is being lost, but if there are homegrown agents of this decline, they're not in the administration.
Along with ' Ca .P. pyri' and ' Ca. P. prunorum', the causative agents of pear decline and European stone fruit yellows, respectively, and a few other phytoplasmas, ' Ca. P. mali' forms a second distinct major subclade [ 11].
