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I review the status of large-scale structure studies based on redshift surveys of galaxies and clusters of galaxies. In particular, I compare recent results on the power spectrum and two-point correlation correlation function from the 2dF and REFLEX surveys, highlighting the advantage of X-ray clusters in the comparison to cosmological models, given their easy-to-understand mass selection function. Unlike for galaxies, this allows the overall normalization of the power spectrum to be measured directly from the data, providing an extra constraint on the models. In the context of CDM models, both the shape and amplitude of the REFLEX P(k) require, consistently, a low value for the mean matter density $Omega_M$. This shape is virtually indistinguishable from that of the galaxy power spectrum measured by the 2dF survey, simply multiplied by a constant cluster-galaxy bias factor. This consistency is remarkable for data sets which use different tracers and are very different in terms of selection function and observational biases. Similarly, the knowledge of the power spectrum normalization yields naturally a value $bsimeq 1$ for the bias parameter of $b_J$-selected (as in 2dF) galaxies, also in agreement with independent estimates using higher-order clustering and CMB data. In the final part, I briefly describe the measurements of the matter density parameter from redshift space distortions in galaxy surveys, and show evidence for similar streaming motions of clusters in the REFLEX redshift-space correlation function $xi(r_p,pi)$. With no exception, this wealth of independent clustering measurements point in a remarkably consistent way towards a low-density CDM Universe with $Omega_Msimeq 0.3$.
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