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Stone Decay by Plants and Animals

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Plants and animals attack stone by both mechanical and chemical action. Higher plants can affect stone both mechanically and biochemically; bacteria, the lowest kind of life, only attack by chemical means. The biotic decay is very complex and not yet fully understood.

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Winkler, E.M. (1997). Stone Decay by Plants and Animals. In: Stone in Architecture. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10070-7_8

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