The phrase "agents of mortality" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing factors or entities that contribute to death or the end of life.
Example: "In the study of public health, we often examine the agents of mortality that affect different populations."
Alternatives: "causes of death" or "factors of mortality".
Forests stressed by ozone are also more vulnerable to other agents of mortality, including insects, pathogens, climate change, and ultimately fire.
It is important to emphasize that the comparatively long transects tested in this study also enhances the ability to identify agents of mortality and the ultimate causes of change.
Evidence such as this was taken by previous authors to implicate falling palm fronds as major causal agents of mortality and selection in tropical forests [ 15].
It is well established that herbivores are important agents of mortality, that plant secondary metabolites often determine patterns of susceptibility and that differential survival leads to differential chemical expression in plants (Rosenthal and Janzen, 1979; Orians and Ward, 2010).
These results could be due to lack of an effect of administration of topical agents on mortality since in only one trial that used antiseptic decontamination [ 51], and in no antibiotic trials [ 37, 38, 57- 71], was a significant reduction in mortality found.
Analyses of our data with the same limitations as Kumar and Gaieski resulted in significant impact of hourly increasing time to administration of antimicrobial agents on mortality in multivariate analysis.
Brucella spp was not detected in the same whales, similarly to a number of viral agents, which have been reported to be the causative agents of several mortality episodes among free-ranging cetaceans (Morbillivirus, Herpesvirus, Coronavirus and Adenovirus), searched using both bio-molecular techniques and electron microscopy.
Several studies have identified the strategy's defensive function, the agents of offspring mortality and have quantified its benefits in terms of offspring survival under field conditions [ 39, 41, 54– 58].
Beyond the smaller tree sizes (i.e. ≥1 cm diameter at breast height; DBH), cellulose-degrading pathogens per se become less important as agents of tree mortality, and are not common on live trees (Gilbert et al. 2002).
The employment of combined end points that use a combination of nonfatal events with death has been criticized [ 2, 9], since they may lead to the camouflage of a negative outcome or result in a dilution of the effects of the therapeutic agent on mortality [ 10].
There were significant differences in the long-term cardiac mortality between various causative agents of IE, the mortality being highest for Enterococcus faecalis, as well as between various predisposing cardiac conditions, the mortality being highest for acquired valvular disease.
