Long ago when Dioxins and PCBs were big news, I worked with a great scientist by the name of Ross Norstrom at the National WIldlife Research Centre. I was the computer model guy - the IBM PC was being invented at the time I worked there. Together they published some papers in some pretty good journals. These talked about how contaminants got from the environment into Herring Gulls and the Great Lakes. I always like to say the Ross solved problems analytically, and I solved them numerically. No doubt Ross led the way. Ross was a world class chemist.
The links below lead to scanned copies of some of the papers. The best summary paper is at Environmental Science & Technology 22(2). Wildlife monitoring, modeling, and fugacity. Indicators of chemical contamination. Authors Tom Clark, Kathryn Clark, Sally Paterson, Donald Mackay and Ross J. Norstrom. February 1988, Volume 22(Issue 2) Page p.120To-127.
There are more papers. I will add them asap.