 This would seem to make a strong case for a focus on ecosystems, but Peterson et al. misquote this foundational paper on NCP. “Maintenance of options” in fact is described (Díaz et al. 2018: Table S1) as the “Capacity of ecosystems, habitats, species or genotypes to keep options open in order to support a good quality of life”. The misrepresentation gives the impression that the maintenance of options is only about how ecosystems support human-well-being.