Habitat fragmentation is where a unit of habitable land is split up into smaller parts. This can occur naturally due to catastrophic events. Habitat fragmentation can also be man-made, due to agriculture, construction, pollution, or deforestation. This is important to our study of renewable natural resources because habitat fragmentation can result in an overall reduction in biodiversity for native populations, disrupting the depletion-repletion cycle of natural resources in the given habitat.