'exert negative' is a correct usage
You can use it to refer to something that has a negative effect or influence. For example, "The proposed budget exerts negative consequences for students of the school district."
Other environmental stress variables found to exert negative influences are vibration, low illumination, high atmospheric pressure, noise, glare, toxic gases, ionization, and subgravity.
Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) can also exert negative effects.
Degenerative shoulder problems before trauma have been reported to exert negative influence on functional prognosis [17].
These agglomerates exert negative effects on the stable operation of the field emitter.
They interpreted their results to the effect that such programmes exert negative effects on the competitiveness of unsubsidized firms.
Phenols cause unpleasant taste and odour of drinking water and can exert negative effects on different biological processes [3].
Rapid and continuous urban expansion, however, may exert negative effects on the performance of practical zoning designs.
The present study provided experimental evidence that mangrove DOM can exert negative effects on reef sponges, while mangrove-associated sponges remain unaffected.
Parasites thereby exert negative frequency-dependent selection on their hosts, with the most common host genotypes having low fitness and declining in frequency as parasites infect them.
Cellulase could reduce jute fiber strength, and exert negative effect on fiber performance, hence subsequent study should consider deleting this gene.
In that sense, the presence of crosscutting concerns is one of such modularity anomalies that possibly exert negative effects on software maintainability.
