The phrase "artificial causes of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing phenomena or effects that are generated or influenced by human-made factors rather than natural ones.
Example: "The study aimed to identify the artificial causes of climate change and their impact on global temperatures."
Alternatives: "man-made causes of" or "human-induced causes of".
Though nitrous oxide is not regulated under the Montreal Protocol, the 1987 agreement to limit emissions of ozone-depleting chemicals, the researchers say it is emerging as the leading artificial cause of ozone loss.
Counting mutations would be somewhat too simplistic because some mutations at certain positions may be very unstable (because of a site-specific mutation rate that is well above average) and therefore provide little evidence in favor of an artificial cause rather than natural evolution.
Artificial lighting causes tens of thousands of hatchling deaths per year.
Chronic uremia in adults, even when treated by use of the artificial kidney, causes osteoporosis and deposition of calcium apatite in arterial walls and tendon sheaths, probably associated with hyperparathyroidism.
Clearly, artificial feeding causes spatial aggregation of wild boar and thus, presumably, increased contacts among animals.
Not taking timing of the colonization into account would cause time-dependent bias, causing artificial inflation of a protective effect, or dampening or even reversal of a harmful effect (26, 28, 29).
In the 4 trees, the chlamydiae (except P. amoebophila) exhibited relatively long branches, and in the case of the aspartate aminotransferase, this may have caused artificial attraction of these chlamydiae to a very long branch comprising all other bacteria (except cyanobacteria) rendering the chlamydiae paraphyletic (not shown).
It is therefore plausible that an artificial situation causes a decrease in the efficiency of fertilization.
Before analysis, the matrix was cleaned by pruning rogue taxa, identified as unstable terminals causing artificial lowering of branch support, using the software RogueNaRok [ 104].
Also, we have to consider if using stainless steel instruments during surgery may cause artificial contamination of the tissue samples, as all the examined samples contained iron particles.
