The phrase "agent of degradation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing factors or entities that contribute to deterioration or decline, whether in environmental, social, or other contexts.
Example: "Pollution acts as an agent of degradation, harming ecosystems and reducing biodiversity."
Alternatives: "catalyst of decline" or "factor of deterioration".
This paper presents an experimental study on the behaviour of the self-protection granule of bituminous membranes when subjected to environmental agents of degradation.
What procrastination betrays is above all an anxiety of creation: It pains us unbearably to realize that, for all our good intentions, we are agents of degradation, that instead of creating something that stays whole and incorruptible, we by our very doing make it "perishable and mortal," in the words of the Gnostic author of the Gospel of Philip.
The Densu Basin in Southern Ghana is confronted with three agents of degradation: bad farming practices, deforestation, and pollution.
Fine particulate matter is, on account of its aerodynamic properties and typical composition (especially diesel particulate matter and carbonaceous particles) the particulate pollutant potentially most harmful to cultural heritage, representing an aesthetic issue and an agent of chemical degradation simultaneously.
The principal agent for degradation of dyes by light in the presence of photocatalysts is the ·OH radical.
Strains of Bacillus thuringiensis appeared to be biotic agents for degradation of fipronil and a wide range of pyrethroids in sugarcane fields [24] and an activated sludge [25].
These results are in consistent with previous reports (Godden et al. 1992; Crawford 1983); actinomycetes thus are important agents of lignocellulose degradation, although their ability to degrade cellulose and lignin is not as high as that of fungi.
Within the tropical forests and woodlands, fire undoubtedly has been the great human agent of clearance and degradation, of far greater efficacy than felling, bark-ringing, or uprooting at least until the introduction of modern plantation agriculture and logging.
However, as will be shown, neither strategy alone, nor in combination, may reduce the true agent of salmonid habitat degradation: sediment delivery.
Cryopreservation success is affected by coupled phenomena which are commonly classified as resulting from exposure to low temperatures, kinetics of ice crystallization, toxicity of ice-controlling agents (ICAs), degradation of biological material in a suspended state, and development of thermo-mechanical stresses the focus of the current presentation.
