Seed dispersal is essential for plants as it improves the
chances of the seeds being able to grow to the adult
stage.
Predators target areas which have a high
concentration of seeds as they have to spend a lesser amount of time and energy. By
dispersing their seeds plants ensure that the number of seeds available for predators to
eat right below the parent plant is lesser.
Also, a small
plant that grows under the parent plant is denied access to sunlight and nutrients in
the right amount. Seed dispersal is an attempt to find better conditions for the plants
to grow. Seed dispersal is also a means of colonization of new regions which may not
have been inhabited by the plant earlier and which offer good conditions for growth and
development.
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